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Subject: Re: [patch] Input cleanups for 2.5.29 [2/2]
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 22:55, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 1    The typedef name intN_t designates a signed integer type with
>      width N, no padding bits, and a two's complement
>      representation. Thus, int8_t denotes a signed integer type
>      with a width of exactly 8 bits.

And arbitary alignment requirements. At least I see nothing in C99
saying that

	uint8_t foo;
	uint8_t bar;

isnt allowed to give you interesting suprises


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