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To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
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Subject: Re: [GIT PULL -tip] fix 33 make headers_check warnings
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Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> I had an objection as previously stated -- namely that
> <stdint.h> should be included to remain friendly to C++0x
> programs which should use <cstdint> instead. Forcing
> stdint.h is therefore not nice.
> 

FWIW, it's kind of pointless in that case; <cstdint> exports it into the 
std:: namespace rather than the root namespace, so using stdint types 
still don't work.

It again comes down to: for headers exported to userspace we *have* to 
use double-underscore types.

	-hpa
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