Talk:Data type

Actually I am not sure if this page really belongs into this wiki. Data types and standards (like IEEE_754) are nothing GTA specific. The data types GTA uses are part of the hardware architecture or subsystem the game is running on. I do not know how far Playstation or XBox systems are using other standards, but basicly everything can be a data type that fits into a processor's register. So data types in general are descriped by the system's processor (RISC, x86, ...). Strings are something that depends on the subsystem (operating system). The 3 types of strings that are used in most cases are ANSI-Strings (C++ typedef's them as const char_t*), Unicode-Strings (const wchar_t *) and BSTR's (where the first 16 bit store the ammount of characters inside the string, whereas LPCSTR's and LPCWSTR's are zero-terminated). But in general the processor does not truly hold the string itself, it just stores the address in a register. This means strings are just some special interpretation of the one rudimentary data types a processor can know: a number. The representation (data type) depends on the operation the processor executes over this "piece of bits" and not on how GTA wants the processor to operate using it. --Aschratt - oO 19:01, 9 June 2011 (UTC)

I wanted a place explain the basic concepts and terminologies. Pages like Time cycle could maybe have a link to here for those who don't know what the words mean. The page can include links to relevant sites for more information.--Spaceeinstein 16:09, 11 June 2011 (UTC)