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

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

On Tue, May 17, 2011 at 06:05:48PM +0300, Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote:
> 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.

Just replacing them with their equivalents without "fast" in the name
seems way easier.  Anyway, is the patch accepted or rejected?

Diego