Add an alias to (char*) to help the parsing macro

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/simgrid/trunk@3792 48e7efb5-ca39-0410-a469-dd3cf9ba447f

diff --git a/include/xbt/str.h b/include/xbt/str.h
index 61e8f54..ba0a616 100644 (file)
--- a/include/xbt/str.h
+++ b/include/xbt/str.h
@@ -71,6 +71,12 @@ XBT_PUBLIC(char *) xbt_str_join(xbt_dynar_t dynar, const char *sep);
 XBT_PUBLIC(void) xbt_str_strip_spaces(char *);
 XBT_PUBLIC(char *) xbt_str_diff(char *a, char *b);
 
+/** @brief Classical alias to (char*) 
+ *
+ * This of almost no use, beside cosmetics and the GRAS parsing macro (see \ref GRAS_dd_auto).
+ */
+typedef char *xbt_string_t;
+
 /**@}*/
 
 SG_END_DECL()