Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261408AbVDDVCe (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2005 17:02:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261416AbVDDU7i (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2005 16:59:38 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:484 "EHLO parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261373AbVDDU5Z (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2005 16:57:25 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 21:57:19 +0100 From: Al Viro To: Renate Meijer Cc: Dag Arne Osvik , Stephen Rothwell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Adrian Bunk , Andreas Schwab , Kyle Moffett , Grzegorz Kulewski , Kenneth Johansson Subject: Re: Use of C99 int types Message-ID: <20050404205718.GZ8859@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> References: <424FD9BB.7040100@osvik.no> <20050403220508.712e14ec.sfr@canb.auug.org.au> <424FE1D3.9010805@osvik.no> <524d7fda64be6a3ab66a192027807f57@xs4all.nl> <1112559934.5268.9.camel@tiger> <3821024b00b47598e66f504c51437f72@xs4all.nl> <42511BD8.4060608@osvik.no> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 697 Lines: 16 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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/