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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Introduce short names for fixed width integer t
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malc |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Introduce short names for fixed width integer types |
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Tue, 9 Aug 2011 14:18:20 +0400 (MSD) |
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Alpine 2.00 (LNX 1167 2008-08-23) |
On Mon, 8 Aug 2011, Peter Maydell 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.
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> 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.
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> We only just recently managed to get rid of the nonstandard
> typenames for these from fpu/...
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Seconded.
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