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John Emmas wrote:
> When compiling things under cygwin I'm noticing that the compiler is very
> strict about things like typedef'd variables.  For example if 'gint' is
> typedef'd as int and 'int32' is also typedef'd as int I can't pass an int32
> to a function that requires gint.  This means I'm having to put dozens of
> casts all over the place.  Is there any way to avoid this?  e.g. a compiler
> switch that would make the compiler a bit more lenient?
I think the problem is between keyboard and chair. GCC, no matter how
ancient version, just does not do that. That would be in violation of
very basic principle of all C and C++ standards. Typedef does not create
new types, it merely creates aliases for existing types.

> 
> John

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