From: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
To: Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, kvm@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Introduce short names for fixed width integer types
Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:17:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E3FF013.5010906@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4E3FDDD6.9070501@codemonkey.ws>
Am 08.08.2011 15:00, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> On 08/08/2011 07:56 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> QEMU deals with a lot of fixed width integer types; their names
>> (uint64_t etc) are clumsy to use and take up a lot of space.
>>
>> Following Linux, introduce shorter names, for example U64 for
>> uint64_t.
>
> Except Linux uses lower case letters.
>
> I personally think Linux style is wrong here. The int8_t types are
> standard types.
I fully agree, we should use the standard types.
> Besides, we save lots of characters by using 4-space tabs instead of
> 8-space tabs. We can afford to spend some of those saved characters on
> using proper type names :-)
Heh, I like this reasoning. :-)
Kevin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-08-08 14:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-08-08 12:56 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Introduce short names for fixed width integer types Avi Kivity
2011-08-08 13:00 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-08 13:12 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-08 13:17 ` Anthony Liguori
2011-08-08 13:19 ` Avi Kivity
2011-08-08 14:17 ` Kevin Wolf [this message]
2011-08-08 13:19 ` Peter Maydell
2011-08-09 10:18 ` malc
2011-08-09 12:39 ` Juan Quintela
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