Re: Removing assumption of unsigned long pixel values for colours

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Alex Gramiak <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 06 May 2019 10:29:38 -0600
> 
> > COLORREF is just the RGB representation of a color, see
> >
> >   https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/gdi/colorref
> 
> Right, but my point is that AFAIU the unsigned long value is used in a
> different manor (embedded rather than used to lookup a value) on the w32
> side, so it could be viewed that the representation of colors is already
> platform-dependent.

OK, but that just says that each platform already performs the mapping
you wanted to avoid.  What makes your back-end special that it needs
to avoid this?