From: Alexandre Oliva (oliva@dcc.unicamp.br)
Date: Sat Feb 06 1999 - 22:48:26 EST
On Feb 7, 1999, Godmar Back <gback@cs.utah.edu> wrote:
>> We use uint8, not uint8_t, and the BeOS patch seems to be attempting
>> to use the latter.
> No it doesn't. In fact, if I do a rgrep uint8_t, I don't see anything.
Ah! Now I see it. When I first read the configure.in code that
``tested'' for those defines, I had assumed they had something to do
with the *int*_t types, not *int*. If BeOS defines types without the
_t suffix, I see some reason for the tests, and some other platforms
may do it as well.
> It was really all about the types kaffe defines and uses, which
> clashed with beos definitions.
Shouldn't we stop using those potentially conflicting type names, and
use only the j* types with equivalent meaning?
Most of the native code could also benefit (in terms of portability)
from not using standard C types directly, using the j* types instead.
--
Alexandre Oliva http://www.dcc.unicamp.br/~oliva aoliva@{acm.org}
oliva@{dcc.unicamp.br,gnu.org,egcs.cygnus.com,samba.org}
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, SP, Brasil
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