Re: NSInteger versus int

[David Chisnall]

On 6 Aug 2009, at 17:50, Martin Kalbfuß wrote:

> When should I use the NS types? I can't see a reason for there  
> exsistens. I'm
> not sure if my sdl wrapper should use them.

NSInteger exists to make it easier for C89 code to be 64-bit safe.   
NSInteger is equivalent to C99's intptr_t; an integer which is  
guaranteed to be the same width as a pointer.  You can safely cast  
between void* and NSInteger, but you can't (always) safely cast  
between void* and int.

David