From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: me@sillymon.ch (Silvan Jegen)
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 15:08:14 +0200
Subject: single, comprehensive kernel data types document?
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Am 2016-04-15 14:37, schrieb John Chludzinski:
> Never use stdint.h? Wasn't that the intent of stdint.h ... for kernel
> code? For embedded code?

I could be wrong about this but the reason for not using it may be that 
there is no standard C library where the Kernel lives. Thus using types 
from stdint.h would be confusing. Also, the string "u16" is much shorter 
than "uint16_t" and thus must surely be faster! :P


Cheers,

Silvan