Re: FYI: CWS removetooltypes01

On 14.01.2011 13:33, Regina Henschel wrote:
> Hi Carsten,
>
> Carsten Driesner schrieb:
>> Hi,
>>
>> we are currently working on removing the long deprecated tool types (
>> e.g. ULONG, USHORT, BYTE, UINT16, UINT32, UINT64, INT16, INT32, INT64,
>> BOOL, TRUE, FALSE ) to get rid of problems with clashing Windows API
>> types. There is a never ending story with native Windows code and
>> precompiled header, although the are prewin and postwin includes.
>> If you are working on larger code sections please try to use other types
>> preferring sal types (e.g. sal_uInt8, sal_Int8, sal_Bool,
>> sal_True/sal_False ...)
>>
>
> Is there a special reason to use sal_Bool, sal_True/sal_False instead of
> the native bool, true, false? Or can I use the native ones, if I want?
Hi Regina,

As Stephan wrote you should prefer bool over sal_Bool except when 
interfacing API demands it. We use semi-automatic scripts to convert the 
old tools types. Therefore we have to use the "safer" type sal_Bool. If 
you work on your code you should decide which type bool/sal_Bool matches 
best.

Regards,
Carsten