typedefing built-in value types?

[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

 

[Branimir Giurov]

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

 

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

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?

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.)