u_int32_t vs uint32_t
Alan Coopersmith
Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM
Mon Aug 23 09:51:32 PDT 2004
Stuart Kreitman wrote:
>
>
> Matthieu Herrb wrote:
>
>>
>> the u_ variants are the traditional types used on BSD systems and
>> defined by including <sys/types.h>.
>>
>> There is some (limited) previous art of using the u_ types in the X
>> tree, that's why it looked right to me.
>
>
>
> Hmnn, that couldn't be the case anymore, because if I change it in
> Wraphelp.c, the build completes.
>
> I have posted this question internally to see if we have a language
> lawyer who can explain whether there's some
> standards body intent to push one form or another. Its not my bag.
uint32_t is the form specified by the ISO/ANSI C99 standard, the
current version of the Single Unix Specification (the combined
replacement for the POSIX & XPG series of specs, and LSB 1.3.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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