Hey folks. Not sure if someone responded and I just didn't see it because I'm not on the dev@ list, or if there just isn't that much interest in these questions. Can someone please at least confirm that I've not screwed up sending this message somehow?
On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 3:24 PM, Alex Clemmer <clemmer.alexan...@gmail.com> wrote: > I should note also that I have looked closely at the issue tracker > (e.g., https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/ZOOKEEPER-1953) and > various related changesets (e.g., > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=1148116) but being > young and raised mostly on git I could not find a discussion of why > this file is the way that it is. So it could well be that I am simply > missing simple guidance like "make sure not to include `stdint.h` in > any project consuming the ZK C client library." > > On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 3:18 PM, Alex Clemmer > <clemmer.alexan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hey folks. >> >> We (the Apache Mesos project) are building against the ZK C client on >> Windows, with VS 2015 (and MSVC v.1900). When we attempt a vanilla >> build, including both `zookeeper.h` and `stdint.h` causes the compiler >> to complain that we're re-typedef'ing a few types (such as >> `int_fast8_t` with different underlying types) in the file, >> `winstdint.h`. >> >> I have scoured the Internet to see if I'm missing a -D flag somewhere, >> but it does not appear that this is the case. >> >> The comments in this file state that it's meant to provide a >> C9X-compliant version of `stdint.h` for Windows, but for later >> versions of MSVC some of the definitions seem to be redundant or >> different. (For example, on VS 2013 `int_fast16_t` is redefined with a >> different underlying type.) >> >> My question for you all is: am I missing something obvious, or should >> I submit a bug and a patch to resolve this issue for you? >> >> >> -- >> Alex >> >> Theory is the first term in the Taylor series of practice. -- Thomas M >> Cover (1992) > > > > -- > Alex > > Theory is the first term in the Taylor series of practice. -- Thomas M > Cover (1992) -- Alex Theory is the first term in the Taylor series of practice. -- Thomas M Cover (1992)
