Re: [mpeg2-dev] [PATCH] Replace int_fast types with their standard POSIX counterparts.

[Diego B. <di...@bi...>]

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 10:53:56PM +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> Le lundi 16 mai 2011 21:27:13 Diego Biurrun, vous avez écrit :
> > The _fast integer types provide no realworld benefits, but may introduce
> > portability issues and are just plain ugly.
> 
> int_fastXX_t are in ISO C just as intXX_t. So IMHO I don't see how they are 
> less portable, less standard or less POSIX.

Maybe my commit message is a bit misleading - I intended for "standard
counterparts" to be read as "more common counterparts that als happen
to be (just as) standard", not as "counterparts that are POSIX standard,
unlike the originally used types".  I can adjust the log message.

The int_fast types are less portable because they are a part of the
standard that is actually implemented on fewer systems.

Diego