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

[R. Denis-C. <re...@re...>]

Le mardi 17 mai 2011 02:54:28 Diego Biurrun, vous avez écrit :
> 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.

If they really are missing on a real-life system you can replace them with 
autofoo AFAICT.

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