Re: [Cvs-dev] Re: [Cvs-test-results] Build CVS (TRUNK) failed.

[Larry Jones]

Mark D. Baushke writes:
> 
> That said, my understanding is that C99 mandates both <stdint.h> and
> <inttypes.h>. The latter was around on some systems prior to the C99
> standard.

That's because the original proposal for C99 was to have just a single
header -- <inttypes.h> -- that contained everything.  As a result of
later discussions, we decided to split out the stuff that made sense for
freestanding implementations into <stdint.h>, which we then required for
all implementations (<inttypes.h> is only required for hosted
implementations).  C99 also requires that <inttypes.h> include
<stdint.h>, so including just <inttypes.h> should be sufficient in all
cases where it exists.  Only if it doesn't exist should <stdint.h> be
included, the assumption being that it's either a freestanding
implementation that provides <stdint.h> but not <inttypes.h>, or a
pre-C99 implementation that doesn't provide either header and the GNULIB
substitute is being used instead.  But there's never any reason that I
know of to include *both* <inttypes.h> and <stdint.h>, which is what
essentially all of the existing code does.  SGI's <inttypes.h> header
works correctly reguardless of whether C99 mode is in effect or not, so
including it instead of (rather than in addition to) <stdint.h> will
resolve the problem.

-Larry Jones

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