Re: [PATCH] Allow kernel to build on Cygwin

[H. Peter Anvin]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Feb 23 2007 16:17, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Deepak Saxena wrote:
> > > diff --git a/lib/gen_crc32table.c b/lib/gen_crc32table.c
> > > index bea5d97..ce447ff 100644
> > > --- a/lib/gen_crc32table.c
> > > +++ b/lib/gen_crc32table.c
> > > @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
> > > # include <stdio.h>
> > > # include "crc32defs.h"
> > > +#ifndef __CYGWIN__
> > > #include <inttypes.h>
> > > +#endif
> > >
> > > #define ENTRIES_PER_LINE 4
> > Cygwin has <inttypes.h> just fine; what are you trying to do here?
>
> What's the benefit of inttypes.h over stdint.h?

<inttypes.h> is a superset of <stdint.h>; some older platforms don't 
have <stdint.h> (but has all the contents thereof in <inttypes.h>) however.

In general <inttypes.h> is what you want.  The utility of <stdint.h> is 
relatively limited; it looks like it's intended so that <stdint.h> 
contains the compiler-specific portions rather than the library-specific 
portions.

	-hpa
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