Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Introduce short names for fixed width integer types

[Peter Maydell]

On 8 August 2011 13:56, Avi Kivity <address@hidden> 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.

Strongly disagree. uint64_t &c are standard types and it's
immediately clear to a competent C programmer what they are.
Random qemu-specific funny named types just introduces an
unnecessary level of indirection.

We only just recently managed to get rid of the nonstandard
typenames for these from fpu/...

-- PMM