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Fundamental Types

[This part should be moved into standards/guidelines.]

Rather than the fundamental C types, the following should be used in their stead:

Int A signed integer guaranteed to be at least 32 bits long.
uInt An unisgned integer guaranteed to be at least 32 bits long.
Char A signed character.
uChar An unsigned character.
Float
Double Float and Double are guaranteed to be different sizes. Normally they will correspond to "float" and "double", however occasionally they might be set to, e.g., "double" and "long double" if more precision is required.
Bool An enumeration for Boolean results. True and False have been defined for it. Note that C++ will have a native Boolean type in the future.

Note that there are some circumstances, typically involving I/O, where the native types are required; however normally one of the above typedef's should be used.

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