Robert Ramey wrote:
We should discuss whether to use short, int, long ... as the primitiveFor who would it be less natural to use int32_t, etc instead of int, etc? Not the end user of the archive, right? And I think the writer of the archive would be more concerned with portability. And even he/she is not, the burden is not that great, is it?
types or int8_t, int16_t, int32_t, int64_t. The latter makes it easier to write portable archives, the former seems more natural. I can accept both choices but we should not mix the two as is done now.
AFAICT the advantages of int32_t etc outweigh the disadvantages. But perhaps I'm missing something?
Regards,
Dirk Gerrits
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