Re: NSUInteger question
Re: NSUInteger question
- Subject: Re: NSUInteger question
- From: Christopher Nebel <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 14:01:33 -0700
On Apr 9, 2008, at 9:30 AM, Corbin Dunn wrote:
On Apr 8, 2008, at 5:30 PM, Timothy Reaves wrote:
What advantage does NSUinteger have over uint32? I realize that
on a 64 bit machine, it would be a uint64.
I think everyone is missing the point. The advantage is not "None".
I didn't mean to say that NS[U]Integer has no point, but rather that
it doesn't make sense to say that it has an "advantage" (or not) over
uint32_t, because they mean different things. If what you want is a
machine-sized integer, then NSInteger has some very clear advantages
over the alternative (lots of ifdefs). However, if what you want is
specifically a 32-bit integer, then NSInteger would just be wrong.
I'd venture that most uses are in the former camp, not the latter, but
it deserves at least a little thought.
As for the question of "NSInteger" versus "long", I've had to work on
enough different architectures that I consider there to be an implicit
advantage in a typedef (NSInteger) over a bare "long", but that's me.
--Chris Nebel
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