From: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
To: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>
Cc: arjanv@redhat.com, Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
DRI <dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Subject: Re: drm - first steps towards 64-bit correctness..
Date: Sat, 31 Jul 2004 03:06:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040731100641.GA2334@holomorphy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1091267836.425.46.camel@leguin>
On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 02:54, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> can you explain why u32 would be outlawed? Surely it's trivial to do a
>> typedef for u32 on BSD for drm ??
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 02:57:17AM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> If there are nice standard types (uint32_t or u_int32_t, can't remember
> which at the moment, I mentioned it in an email some time ago) out there
> already that linux has too, why not use those?
uint*_t. ISTR something about Linux' usage predating standard type
names for the things.
I have much more serious issues with other naming conventions to get
worked up about this one. In general I don't mind ones that are less
verbose than the standard.
-- wli
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-07-31 10:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-07-31 9:13 drm - first steps towards 64-bit correctness Dave Airlie
2004-07-31 9:32 ` Eric Anholt
2004-07-31 9:54 ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-07-31 9:57 ` Eric Anholt
2004-07-31 10:06 ` William Lee Irwin III [this message]
2004-07-31 11:02 ` Dave Airlie
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