C Type explanation request

[belugas]

I'm sorry to ask, but could anyone give me the byte lenght of those C Types?
I'm trying to translate OpenTTD to Delphi, and i'm really puzzled by these :

int
uint

Are they Signed/Unsigned 32 bytes or Signed/Unsigned 16 bytes?

Thanks

[Darkvater]

You could've looked it up yourself:

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typedef unsigned int uint;
typedef unsigned int uint32;

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assert_compile(sizeof(uint32) == 4);

int is signed int 32, uint is unsigned int 32, at least we assume so for OpenTTD.


Btw, why and how are you translating OpenTTD to Delphi?

[belugas]

I guess I could have found it myself indeed, but it would take me days and days of searching...

I'm a senior delphi programmer at work without any knowledge of C.
So I though that it might be a good idea for me to learn from the pros
Why not do it with OpenTTD.

I downloaded the sources from SourceForge, then I started working on h files, renamed "h.pas". I'm using delphi 7, in order to be able to compile on 2 platforms.

No tools, simply reading and understanding C...
Hard job...

[Bjarni]

you know, OpenTTD might be a really bad choice for this since the code is rather complex. Also you learn C best if you code in C. Try some self learning book instead..... translating 126k of code where seasoned C coders might not understand all of it is not a good place to start. Get the source and compile to play it and maybe even try to write a patch for it if you feel like you can manage, but translating all of it.... forget it. It's a project that will take years to do, even if you know the language well

[belugas]

Well.. I agree that it is quite a pile of work.
On the other hand, drilling into the code gives me the possibility to AT LEAST understand the types of, let say grf files.
Eventually, that could lead me to write a grf editor, or a map editor, or whatever could come up.

I know how to read C, up to a certain point.
I simply want to improve myself in something that I like, Delphi and OpenTTD...

If I could translate it, cool. Otherwise, too bad, but it would have been fun...

Anyway, thanks for the advice, i'll consider it.