[TUHS] standard types

[TUHS] standard types

[Larry McVoy]

I have my own types.h that I carry around that has stuff like 

    typedef unsigned char           u8;
    typedef unsigned short          u16;
    typedef unsigned int            u32;
    typedef unsigned long long      u64;
    typedef signed char             i8;
    typedef signed short            i16;
    typedef signed int              i32;
    typedef signed long long        i64;

and I wonder why the original Unix authors didn't make something similar?
Instead we have uint64_t and I don't see the added value of more chars.
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[TUHS] standard types

[Ron Natalie]

The standard includes a similar set of typedefs.

The problem is that this does little to insure portability.
 

[TUHS] standard types

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Larry,

> Instead we have uint64_t and I don't see the added value of more
> chars.

The `_t' suffix plonks them in the area that POSIX has reserved so if
they do clash with existing ones that's the user's fault.  Perhaps they
felt the `uint' was still short enough and containing `int' was
mnemonic.

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