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Re: [PATCH] Fix type inconsistencies in stdint.h
Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 10:07:36AM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Apr 11 04:51, Dave Korn wrote:
>>> Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>>
>>>> Good point, I guess. So, if we all agree on that, I'd suggest to
>>>> change Dave's patch to the one below.
>>> Two hunks went astray in the adjustment, the fixes for INTPTR_Mxx and
>>> SIZE_MAX still apply because we didn't change their types.
>>>
>>> Also, Joseph just introduced a new testcase in GCC SVN, and it shows up a
>>> problem with our definition of WINT_MAX.
>> What problem exactly? UINT_MAX not defined?
>>
>>> * include/stdint.h (INTPTR_MIN, INTPTR_MAX): Add 'L' suffix.
>>> (WINT_MAX): Add 'U' suffix.
>> Applied.
>
> These are now different than linux. Didn't we want to make them the same?
If linux doesn't have them matching the types they define, the linux headers
are going to need patching upstream as well. We have
typedef long intptr_t;
therefore the constants must be long as well. What does Linux have?
cheers,
DaveK