C99 types in Xmd.h?

[Kyle McMartin]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 06:42:14PM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Jesse Barnes wrote:
> > On Tuesday, February 05, 2008 6:21 pm Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> >> I'm not sure if pkgsrc is running on any platforms that doesn't provide
> >> the C99 types, but it would be easy to patch that in if there is.
> >> Note that inclusion of inttypes.h and stdint.h has to be done carefully,
> >> not all platforms have them. A good fallback is sys/types.h or really
> >> complaining if the types don't exist.
> > 
> > Really?  Which platforms are missing such basic stuff?
> 
> Old ones.   For the Solaris releases we're providing current Xorg packages
> for, we have no problem with C99 types, but we know there's still users out
> there of releases predating C99, some of whom occasionally try to build Xorg
> themselves.   (Similar to those you still see pop up once or twice a year
> trying to build on Red Hat 7.2 or such.)
> 

Presumably we could just use autoconf to generate a replacement for
the stdint types on ancient platforms.

cheers, Kyle