Re: Use of C99 int types

From: Al Viro
Date: Mon Apr 04 2005 - 16:06:29 EST


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.
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