From: gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk (George Foot)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: allegro 2.2 's textout function
Date: 28 Feb 1997 08:20:17 GMT
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Shawn Hargreaves (Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk) wrote:
: 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...

Yes, sorry, I completely misinterpretted the original problem :)

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George Foot <gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford.