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Integer data types improvement – EasyHack

2 November 20232 June 2024

Many different data types are used in LibreOffice code. During the long history of the LibreOffice, and before that in OpenOffice, there were integer data types that are no longer in use today. The task I discuss here is to choose appropriate data types to use instead of sal_uLong and similar deprecated integer data types. (more…)

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