[Pixman] [PATCH] Use stdint.h on OpenBSD

Brad brad at comstyle.com
Fri Aug 6 20:11:56 PDT 2010


On Thursday 05 August 2010 17:17:31 Soeren Sandmann wrote:
> Brad <brad at comstyle.com> writes:
> > > > OpenBSD has had stdint.h for a long time now. Bug 29330.
> > >
> > > OpenBSD 3.8 is only four years old.  That doesn't seem like a long
> > > time to me at all.
> > >
> > > Joonas
> >
> > Actually going on 5 years old. For us that is ancient. Completely
> > unsupported. No one sane would try to build a modern software stack on
> > top of such an old release, you'd have to build everything from source
> > and run into lots of issues plus its fully of security issues in base and
> > ports/packages.
>
> Is there any real reason to switch to stdint.h?
>
> inttypes.h is part of C99 and required to include stdint.h, so it
> doesn't seem like we'd actually gain anything by switching.

Just drop it. I'm not pushing it that bad.

I just don't see the point in worrying about OpenBSD releases 10 releases old 
which no one uses anymore, nevermind someone trying to build pixman on
such an old release for X that didn't use pixman.

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