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

From: William Lee Irwin III (wli_at_holomorphy.com)
Date: 07/31/04

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    Date:	Sat, 31 Jul 2004 03:06:41 -0700
    To: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>
    
    

    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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