On Jan 8 2008 16:52, Patrick McHardy wrote: > Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> commit 69855da1bb8257b215c83a72edd0c67bd7810fa5 >> Author: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Date: Wed Jan 2 18:30:30 2008 +0100 >> >> [NETFILTER]: Convert unfixated types to fixated ones. >> >> The use of an unfixated type like "int" is dangerous, its size may >> change in future (imagine 128-bit or ILP64 compilation) -- "long" >> already has this problem which is differently-sized on x86_32 and >> x86_64. Switch "int" to "int32_t" to prepare against future compiler >> changes. > > > If that really happens a lot of things would break, so I don't > really see the point. It also changes types like char whose > size won't ever change. > int8_t would serve as an intent annotation that the member is used for a numeric value rather than a character. Well, never mind. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
