Re: drm - first steps towards 64-bit correctness..

[William Lee Irwin III]

On Sat, 2004-07-31 at 02:54, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> can you explain why u32 would be outlawed? Surely it's trivial to do a
>> typedef for u32 on BSD for drm ??

On Sat, Jul 31, 2004 at 02:57:17AM -0700, Eric Anholt wrote:
> If there are nice standard types (uint32_t or u_int32_t, can't remember
> which at the moment, I mentioned it in an email some time ago) out there
> already that linux has too, why not use those?

uint*_t. ISTR something about Linux' usage predating standard type
names for the things.

I have much more serious issues with other naming conventions to get
worked up about this one. In general I don't mind ones that are less
verbose than the standard.


-- wli
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