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From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] LZO de/compression support - take 6
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On May 28 2007 19:11, Adrian Bunk wrote:
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>I have not seen any explanations:
>- Why did the upstream author write the code that way?

I guess it's along the lines of
- portability

(note how this contradicts itself). Really. I have yet to
figure out why everyone invents their own xxx32_t types,
like e.g. glib. well, integer types, one might understand, but when it
comes to gchar or gpointer, that's just plain microsoft-style
(think LPCSTR and LPCVOID...)


	Jan
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