Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Introduce short names for fixed width integer types

[Juan Quintela]

Peter Maydell <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 8 August 2011 13:56, Avi Kivity <address@hidden> 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.
>>
>> Following Linux, introduce shorter names, for example U64 for
>> uint64_t.
>
> Strongly disagree. uint64_t &c are standard types and it's
> immediately clear to a competent C programmer what they are.
> Random qemu-specific funny named types just introduces an
> unnecessary level of indirection.
>
> We only just recently managed to get rid of the nonstandard
> typenames for these from fpu/...

Agreed.  And if we want to change them to be "linux-like", can we just
use the linux names?  Using a name with uppercase just looks doubly
wrong on my eyes.

Later, Juan.