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Re: Thoughts about using inttypes.h


From: Rob Browning
Subject: Re: Thoughts about using inttypes.h
Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 11:34:36 -0600
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Marius Vollmer <address@hidden> writes:

> Hmm, it's only about internal use of integer types, right?  We
> shouldn't change all exported functions from "int" to something else,
> of course.

Absolutely, though there might be some cases where using int_u8 in the
API, or whatever they call it, might be more appropriate than char.
However, the main thing I'm talking about is fixing internal uses of
char, int, etc., esp in situations like WORDS_BIGENDIAN related
bit-fiddling operations.

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Rob Browning
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