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SubjectRe: Use of C99 int types
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Dag Arne Osvik <da@osvik.no> wrote:
>
>>... and with such name 99% will assume (at least at the first reading)
>>that it _is_ 32bits. We have more than enough portability bugs as it
>>is, no need to invite more by bad names.
>
> Agreed. The way I see it there are two reasonable options. One is to
> just use u32, which is always correct but sacrifices speed (at least
> with the current gcc). The other is to introduce C99 types, which Linus
> doesn't seem to object to when they are kept away from interfaces
> (http://infocenter.guardiandigital.com/archive/linux-kernel/2004/Dec/0117.html).

There is a third option which has already been pointed out before:

Use unsigned long.

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