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From: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
To: "Smith, Jason - VA" <JasonSmith@verisign.com>
Cc: C programming list <linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: the rationale for defining macros for simple types?
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 11:45:58 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0608101142570.17196@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C9D203A88CE285489324AEDC5174158604CEB983@dul1wnexmb01.vcorp.ad.vrsn.com>

On Thu, 10 Aug 2006, Smith, Jason - VA wrote:

> Robert,
>
> stdint.h is a part of glibc methinks, and not part of any blessed
> standard that I am aware of.

my copy of harbison and steele lists <stdint.h> as part of C99.  am i
somehow reading that incorrectly?

> What you probably want to include for the int*_t types is
> <inttypes.h>, which found in /usr/(local/)?/include on most of the
> common *nix's out there (might be part of a standard like C99 too).

again, from my copy of H&S, inttypes.h includes stdint.h, so i guess
either one would work fine.  i'm guessing inttypes.h would be the
better choice since it's more all-encompassing.  thanks.

rday

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-10 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-10 15:35 the rationale for defining macros for simple types? Smith, Jason - VA
2006-08-10 15:45 ` Robert P. J. Day [this message]
2006-08-10 16:06 ` Robert P. J. Day
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-10 11:58 Robert P. J. Day
2006-08-10 20:57 ` Glynn Clements

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