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SubjectRe: Use of C99 int types
On Mon, 4 Apr 2005, Al Viro wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:30:52PM +0200, Renate Meijer wrote:
>
>> When used improperly. The #define Al Viro objected to, is
>> objectionable. It's highly
>> misleading, as Mr. Viro pointed out. I fail to see where he made
>> comments on stdint.h
>> as such.
>
> Comments on stdint.h are very simple: ...fast... type names are misleading
> in exactly the same way as that define. The fact that they are in standard
> does not outweight the confusion potential.

I don't find stdint.h in the kernel source (up to 2.6.11). Is this
going to be a new addition?

It would be very helpful to start using the uint(8,16,32,64)_t types
because they are self-evident, a lot more than size_t or, my favorite
wchar_t.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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