Thread (39 messages) 39 messages, 10 authors, 2022-08-25

Re: [PATCH v3] Many pages: Document fixed-width types with ISO C naming

From: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@xry111.site>
Date: 2022-08-25 07:47:57
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On Thu, 2022-08-25 at 09:20 +0200, Alejandro Colomar via Gcc-patches
wrote:
I don't know for sure, and I never pretended to say otherwise.  But what 
IMHO the kernel could do is to make the types compatible, by typedefing 
to the same fundamental types (i.e., long or long long) that user-space 
types do.
In user-space things are already inconsistent as we have multiple libc
implementations.  Telling every libc implementation to sync their
typedef w/o a WG14 decision will only cause "aggressive discussion" (far
more aggressive than this thread, I'd say).

If int64_t etc. were defined as builtin types since epoch, things would
be a lot easier.  But we can't change history.

-- 
Xi Ruoyao [off-list ref]
School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University
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