Re: Integer types

From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 11:55:06 +0200

On 12/31/05, Jeff Sipek <jeffpc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> What's the prefered integer type for kernel code?
>
> * u8, u16, ...
> * uint8_t, uint16_t, ...
> * u_int8_t, t_int16_t, ...

>From the above list, the first ones. See
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/259313. Please note that
there's also __le32 and __be32 for variables that have fixed byte
ordering.

Pekka
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