[Git][freetype/freetype][master] Note the lack of floating-point data types.

[Alexei Podtelezhnikov (@apodtele)]

Alexei Podtelezhnikov pushed to branch master at FreeType / FreeType

Commits:

• 3ab1875c
  by Alexei Podtelezhnikov at 2022-10-14T22:06:23-04:00

  Note the lack of floating-point data types.
  

2 changed files:

• include/freetype/freetype.h
• include/freetype/fttypes.h

Changes:

include/freetype/freetype.h

---

...	...	@@ -4694,7 +4694,8 @@ FT_BEGIN_HEADER
4694	4694	*
4695	4695	* @description:
4696	4696	* This section contains various functions used to perform computations
4697		- * on 16.16 fixed-float numbers or 2d vectors.
	4697	+ * on 16.16 fixed-point numbers or 2D vectors. FreeType does not use
	4698	+ * floating-point data types.
4698	4699	*
4699	4700	* **Attention**: Most arithmetic functions take `FT_Long` as arguments.
4700	4701	* For historical reasons, FreeType was designed under the assumption

include/freetype/fttypes.h

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...	...	@@ -45,7 +45,10 @@ FT_BEGIN_HEADER
45	45	* @description:
46	46	* This section contains the basic data types defined by FreeType~2,
47	47	* ranging from simple scalar types to bitmap descriptors. More
48		- * font-specific structures are defined in a different section.
	48	+ * font-specific structures are defined in a different section. Note
	49	+ * that FreeType does not use floating-point data types. Fractional
	50	+ * values are represented by fixed-point integers, with lower bits
	51	+ * storing the fractional part.
49	52	*
50	53	* @order:
51	54	* FT_Byte

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