Re: [PATCH] Allow kernel to build on Cygwin

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Feb 23 2007 16:17, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Deepak Saxena wrote:
>>> diff --git a/lib/gen_crc32table.c b/lib/gen_crc32table.c
>>> index bea5d97..ce447ff 100644
>>> --- a/lib/gen_crc32table.c
>>> +++ b/lib/gen_crc32table.c
>>> @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
>>> # include <stdio.h>
>>> # include "crc32defs.h"
>>> +#ifndef __CYGWIN__
>>> #include <inttypes.h>
>>> +#endif
>>>
>>> #define ENTRIES_PER_LINE 4
>> Cygwin has <inttypes.h> just fine; what are you trying to do here?
> 
> What's the benefit of inttypes.h over stdint.h?
> 

<inttypes.h> is a superset of <stdint.h>; some older platforms don't 
have <stdint.h> (but has all the contents thereof in <inttypes.h>) however.

In general <inttypes.h> is what you want.  The utility of <stdint.h> is 
relatively limited; it looks like it's intended so that <stdint.h> 
contains the compiler-specific portions rather than the library-specific 
portions.

	-hpa