typedefing built-in value types?

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Matt Wisner

Hi,

Can anyone tell me what the C# equivalent is to the following C code?

typedef unsigned char mybyte;
typedef unsigned short myword;

I don't want to create 'mybyte' and 'myword' as classes or structs.
Is this possible?

Thx,
Matt
 
How about

Type newInt = typeof(int);

at class level,
or

using newInt = System.Int32;

at a top of every file you need to include that type in?

It's not exactly a typedef, but thats the closest thing

Cheers,
Branimir
 
Matt Wisner said:
Can anyone tell me what the C# equivalent is to the following C code?

typedef unsigned char mybyte;
typedef unsigned short myword;

I don't want to create 'mybyte' and 'myword' as classes or structs.
Is this possible?
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The best thing is not to do that, in my view. It lowers readability.
However, you can use using statements:

using mybyte = System.Char;

(Note, however, that a System.Char is *not* a byte. Characters in .NET
are 16 bit unicode plane 0 values.)
 
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