Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261377AbVDDVi4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2005 17:38:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261442AbVDDVba (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2005 17:31:30 -0400 Received: from alog0017.analogic.com ([208.224.220.32]:44759 "EHLO chaos.analogic.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261420AbVDDV3J (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Apr 2005 17:29:09 -0400 Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2005 17:25:23 -0400 (EDT) From: "Richard B. Johnson" Reply-To: linux-os@analogic.com To: Al Viro cc: Renate Meijer , 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 In-Reply-To: <20050404205718.GZ8859@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Message-ID: 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> <20050404205718.GZ8859@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1206 Lines: 31 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 Penguin : Linux version 2.6.11 on an i686 machine (5537.79 BogoMips). Notice : All mail here is now cached for review by Dictator Bush. 98.36% of all statistics are fiction. - 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/