[coreboot] Shortened in types (u32) vs stdint types (uint32_t)

David Woodhouse dwmw2 at infradead.org
Wed Jan 29 14:05:09 CET 2014


On Tue, 2014-01-28 at 13:11 -0600, mrnuke wrote:
> As a result, I propose we make stdint 
> types mandatory, and deprecate shortname types. People don't want to learn a 
> separate set of data types for every project  to which they contribute. stdint 
> types solve this problem by being standardized. I am far from liking this 
> change, but it just makes sense.

Right. The short ones are a hangover from before C99 added the real,
standard types.

We really don't want to be screwing around with non-standard nonsense
like DWORD, u32, and whatever the BSDs use which ISTR is different
again.

Just join us in the 21st century and use the C standard types. Yes,
they're different to what you were used to in the last millennium.
You'll get over it.

-- 
dwmw2
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