From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:40189) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QqPk7-0003OX-7M for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:19:44 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QqPk6-0003uU-4a for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:19:43 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:14561) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QqPk5-0003uO-S2 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Mon, 08 Aug 2011 09:19:42 -0400 Message-ID: <4E3FE269.9020904@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:19:37 +0300 From: Avi Kivity MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <1312808190-31074-1-git-send-email-avi@redhat.com> <4E3FDDD6.9070501@codemonkey.ws> <4E3FE0B7.3090805@redhat.com> <4E3FE1CF.2010203@codemonkey.ws> In-Reply-To: <4E3FE1CF.2010203@codemonkey.ws> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Introduce short names for fixed width integer types List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Anthony Liguori Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org On 08/08/2011 04:17 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote: > > This is one of the few areas that we're actually consistent with > today. Introducing a new set of types will just create inconsistency. > > Most importantly, these are standard types. Every modern library and > C program should be using them. TBH, having short names is just a bad > case of NIH. > Those are exactly the same types, compatible with all the libraries. NIH would be redefining them ourselves (and breaking pointer compatibility etc.) -- error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function