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Re: Supporting Data Types "ushort_t" and "uchar_t"


On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 10:46 AM, Larry Adams wrote:
> My concern is that the "*_t" typedefs are supposed to be hardware architecture
> agnostic, and there must have been some reason, other than "geeze everything
> else is that way, so why not do those two" to have done this for Solaris.

An understandable concern, though I'm having trouble imagining any
scenario where a sensible definition of "ushort_t" and "uchar_t" would
be anything other than "unsigned short" and "unsigned char".

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@gmail.com>

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