what is the current status of "stdint.h"?

what is the current status of "stdint.h"?

[Robert P. J. Day]

  (perhaps a bit off-topic, a combination of a C and gcc and glibc
question.)

  perusing the GCC manual, i notice that a freestanding C99
implementation is supposed to include both <stdbool.h> and <stdint.h>.
i notice that the most recent version of gcc *does* include stdbool.h,
but doesn't include stdint.h, which matches what you read here:

http://gcc.gnu.org/c99status.html

  *howeever*, on my linux system (FC4), the package glibc-headers
*does* include /usr/include/stdint.h, which certainly seems to match
what i imagine stdint.h should eventually contain.

  is the plan for stdint.h to evetually be moved out of glibc-headers
and into gcc to conform with the official definition of C99?  or is
that glibc-headers file "/usr/include/stdint.h" unrelated to the
eventual C99 support for stdint.h?  or what?

rday

Re: what is the current status of "stdint.h"?

[Glynn Clements]

Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   is the plan for stdint.h to evetually be moved out of glibc-headers
> and into gcc to conform with the official definition of C99?  or is
> that glibc-headers file "/usr/include/stdint.h" unrelated to the
> eventual C99 support for stdint.h?  or what?

That would have to be addressed to the gcc developers. There is some
discussion of the issue in the thread starting at:

	http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2004-11/msg00248.html

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn@gclements.plus.com>