On Tue, 2014-01-28 at 23:44 +0100, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote: > I'd like to register my vote of disapproval of a move to stdint. > > u8/u16/u32 are a perfectly fine set of types and the Linux kernel uses > them a lot.
It shouldn't. They're equally anachronistic there. The Linux kernel stopped building with C89 a *long* time ago. > We owe our usage of these short type names to our Linux kernel heritage. > Besides that, they are very convenient to type und read due to their > short names. I stopped counting how often I typed u_int32t instead of > uint32_t. Ah yes, that was the BSD abomination I'd forgotten. Wasn't it u_int32_t or something like that? Seriously though, you'll get over that *really* quickly if you start using C99 standard types as a matter of routine. Your fingers don't take that long to learn, as a one-off. But yes, you highlight the issue which is caused by people clinging to their own nonsense, non-standard types instead of using the language properly. Your fingers have to be retrained every time you switch between projects. -- dwmw2
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