Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 31 Jul 2004 03:06:41 -0700 | From | William Lee Irwin III <> | Subject | Re: drm - first steps towards 64-bit correctness.. |
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On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 02:54, Arjan van de Ven wrote: >> can you explain why u32 would be outlawed? Surely it's trivial to do a >> typedef for u32 on BSD for drm ??
On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 02:57:17AM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote: > If there are nice standard types (uint32_t or u_int32_t, can't remember > which at the moment, I mentioned it in an email some time ago) out there > already that linux has too, why not use those?
uint*_t. ISTR something about Linux' usage predating standard type names for the things.
I have much more serious issues with other naming conventions to get worked up about this one. In general I don't mind ones that are less verbose than the standard.
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