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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Introduce short names for fixed width integer t
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Kevin Wolf |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Introduce short names for fixed width integer types |
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Mon, 08 Aug 2011 16:17:55 +0200 |
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Am 08.08.2011 15:00, schrieb Anthony Liguori:
> On 08/08/2011 07:56 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
>> QEMU deals with a lot of fixed width integer types; their names
>> (uint64_t etc) are clumsy to use and take up a lot of space.
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>> Following Linux, introduce shorter names, for example U64 for
>> uint64_t.
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> Except Linux uses lower case letters.
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> I personally think Linux style is wrong here. The int8_t types are
> standard types.
I fully agree, we should use the standard types.
> Besides, we save lots of characters by using 4-space tabs instead of
> 8-space tabs. We can afford to spend some of those saved characters on
> using proper type names :-)
Heh, I like this reasoning. :-)
Kevin