From: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: allegro 2.2 's textout function
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1997 20:07:00 +0000
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George Foot writes:
>You could change it to "int" and allow for massive font expansion :)

But this would break _lots_ of code! It's one thing to get a warning for
passing signed strings when Allegro is expecting unsigned, because a
warning is all that is, and it will still work. Switching to ints would
prevent people from passing immediate strings to the function at all,
IMHO a very bad thing...

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