Re: [PATCH v3] Many pages: Document fixed-width types with ISO C naming

Xi Ruoyao
2022-08-25T07:47:54Z

On Thu, 2022-08-25 at 09:20 +0200, Alejandro Colomar via Gcc-patches
wrote:
> I don't know for sure, and I never pretended to say otherwise.  But what
> IMHO the kernel could do is to make the types compatible, by typedefing
> to the same fundamental types (i.e., long or long long) that user-space
> types do.

In user-space things are already inconsistent as we have multiple libc
implementations. Telling every libc implementation to sync their
typedef w/o a WG14 decision will only cause "aggressive discussion" (far
more aggressive than this thread, I'd say).

If int64_t etc. were defined as builtin types since epoch, things would
be a lot easier. But we can't change history.

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Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University