[XForms] Genuine API changes to forms.h, glcanvas.h since XForms 0.89

Angus Leeming angus.leeming at btopenworld.com
Tue May 18 10:14:00 EDT 2004


On Tuesday 18 May 2004 3:07 pm, Todd Denniston wrote:
> > I have no feeling whatsoever about the implications of functions
> > previously receiving 'char *' that now receive 'char []'.
>
> I suppose they are equivilent but the 'char *' has always been more
> clear to me and more common in the code I have recived. If you like
> the new way go with it.

Thanks for the reassurances, Todd.

I guess that the new way is marginally safer, but I was more concerned 
that code compiled with the old header would continue to compile with 
the new one.

As a guy who wrote fortran and then moved to c++, 
it all looks ugly ;-)

Angus



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