Hello again! It'd be very handy if 'Pointer' was considered by the interpreter as an integer data type like 'Byte', 'Short', 'Integer' and 'Long'. That way one could use any integer function indiscriminately on a Pointer as well, rather than converting it to 'Long' (using 'CLong' function) every time it's an argument for an integer function. That is specially relevant when interfacing with external C libraries, where to make portable Gambas programs one need to treat the C data type 'long' as the Gambas data type 'Pointer'. This means that 'Pointer' isn't meaningful only in pointer contexts but also in ordinary integer contexts. What do you think about this proposed change? Is there any way in which it can be harmful to existing code or interpreter's functionality?
Thanks in advance. Ps: In order to make portable Gambas programs which interface with external C libraries, one needs to follow the correct equivalence between C and Gambas integer data types, which is given by the table: [C] [Gambas] char Byte short Short int Integer long Pointer void * Pointer long long Long However, the Gambas Wiki page [1], besides having an incomplete table which does not address 'char', 'short' and 'long long', says that the equivalent of C's 'long' is Gambas' 'Long', what is only true on some 64-bit architectures. Footnotes: [1] http://gambaswiki.org/wiki/howto/extern -- ,= ,-_-. =. Bruno Félix Rezende Ribeiro (oitofelix) [0x28D618AF] ((_/)o o(\_)) There is no system but GNU; `-'(. .)`-' GNU Linux-Libre is one of its official kernels; \_/ All software must be free as in freedom;
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