Re: Use of C99 int types

[Renate Meijer <kleuske@xs4all.nl>]

On Apr 4, 2005, at 10:57 PM, Al Viro wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:30:52PM +0200, Renate Meijer wrote:
>
>> When used improperly. The #define Al Viro objected to, is
>> objectionable. It's highly
>> misleading, as Mr. Viro pointed out. I fail to see where he made
>> comments on stdint.h
>> as such.
>
> Comments on stdint.h are very simple: ...fast... type names are 
> misleading
> in exactly the same way as that define.

Yes. However, the consistent designation ...fast... does alleviate that 
somewhat. It
suffices to remember that in case of 'fast', the width mentioned is a 
minimum value.

>  The fact that they are in standard does not outweight the confusion 
> potential.

I'm not so sure. Again, these types are quite clearly designated, 
something the #define
in question lacks. The other types in stdint.h, however, come in quite 
handy. Specifically
since they are guaranteed to represent correct widths by the 
compiler-guys.

Something to take up with the guys at 'comp.lang.c', i'd say.

Regards,

Renate Meijer.