htonl, htons, ntohl and ntohs types

[lars at segv dot dk (Lars Munch)]

Hello

I have noticed that the types of the functions htonl, htons, ntohs and
ntohl differs from standard (and linux):

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/htonl.html

Cygwin uses:

unsigned long int        ntohl(unsigned long int);
unsigned short int       ntohs(unsigned short int);
unsigned long int        htonl(unsigned long int);
unsigned short int       htons(unsigned short int);

The standard (and Linux) has:

uint32_t htonl(uint32_t hostlong);
uint16_t htons(uint16_t hostshort);
uint32_t ntohl(uint32_t netlong);
uint16_t ntohs(uint16_t netshort);

Is there any reason for this difference?

The difference in the api gives me warnings when porting code from
Linux to Cygwin.

Thanks
Lars Munch

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