On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 11:53:32PM +0200, Alistair Crooks wrote: > > Module Name: src > > Committed By: tnozaki > > Date: Wed Jun 2 16:04:52 UTC 2010 > > > > Modified Files: > > src/lib/libc/locale: bsdctype.c > > > > Log Message: > > uint8_t -> unsigned char, int16_t -> short. > > As ever, thank you for looking after our locale code. > > I was just wondering why this change was made? It seems to be a backwards > step to me?
I looked at it and it appears to me that it's a change to use non-sized types (that are guaranteed to be large enough) in the in-memory structures. If we ever do a port to a 36-bit machine or whatever it's probably desirable. -- David A. Holland dholl...@netbsd.org