[Plplot-devel] plstrm.h and PLINTs

[Andrew R. <ar...@ge...>]

While trying to track down the problem with X20C and DJGPP I noticed that
there were several warnings for incompatible pointers being passed. Not a
real issue, it was just PLINT being passed to int and vice versa. Since
PLINT and int are usually the same it should not have made a real
difference to my problem, but it does present an ascetic situation for
compiling without warnings.

One thing I did find was that most of the new plimage commands expect
*dev_ix and *dev_iy in the PLStream structure to be defined as PLINT while
the PLStream structure defines them as type int. I know that is a simple
fix, but this is not really the reason I am writing the email. There are
many other variables of type "int" in PLStream, while the vast majority are
of type "PLINT". Is there any particular reason for this ? 

Should we consider coding all variables of type "int" to "PLINT" for
consistency as was done with "float" to "PLFLOAT" months ago ? 

I can't see any harm in it, but perhaps other people might have objections
or reasons for keeping some variables as "int" and others as "PLINT".
Changing them will also probably mean making the changes in the functions
that manipulate these variables to get rid of warnings as well of course.

- Andrew