On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Smith, Jason - VA wrote: > Robert, > > stdint.h is a part of glibc methinks, and not part of any blessed > standard that I am aware of. What you probably want to include for > the int*_t types is <inttypes.h>, which found in > /usr/(local/)?/include on most of the common *nix's out there (might > be part of a standard like C99 too). as a followup to my last post, i suspect i need include only <stdint.h>, as i don't really need the additional info from <inttypes.h>. i'm a minimalist, and i'd just as soon include as little as i actually need. if some file genuinely needs the extras from <inttypes.h>, then that file can include it explicitly. > As a second opinion, I agree that those macros you have there are > close to worthless, as they are just abbreviated rehashes of the > word-size dependent native types. Unless you have a compelling > reason for making the code less readable with no benefit over > inttypes.h, I'd ditch those macros. i'd suspected as much, i just wanted to make sure there wasn't some really tricky C idiom at work here. so just declaring things with "int8_t" (for example) is the way to go if i really and truly need to get that specific. thanks. rday - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
