2014-01-29 David Woodhouse <[email protected]>: > On Tue, 2014-01-28 at 13:11 -0600, mrnuke wrote: >> As a result, I propose we make stdint >> types mandatory, and deprecate shortname types. People don't want to learn a >> separate set of data types for every project to which they contribute. >> stdint >> types solve this problem by being standardized. I am far from liking this >> change, but it just makes sense. > > Right. The short ones are a hangover from before C99 added the real, > standard types. > > We really don't want to be screwing around with non-standard nonsense > like DWORD, u32, and whatever the BSDs use which ISTR is different > again. > > Just join us in the 21st century and use the C standard types. Yes, > they're different to what you were used to in the last millennium. > You'll get over it. >
I have the same opinion - use the types C99 provides. greets -- Christian Gmeiner, MSc -- coreboot mailing list: [email protected] http://www.coreboot.org/mailman/listinfo/coreboot
