Re: [Libreoffice] [PATCH] Removed dependencies on tools/solar.h

On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 10:34 -0500, Kohei Yoshida wrote:

> > Note:
> > C99 has been a standard for quite a while now. why are we not using
> > the standardized type for these. that is:
> > int8_t uint8_t, int16_t, uint16_t, int32_t, uint32_t, int64_t,
> > uint64_t, intptr_t, uintptr_t,...
>
> Actually, I've been a proponent of these data types myself.  So I
> personally would much prefer using these types over sal_Foo data types.
> So, no objection there from me. :-)

Having said that, extensions do use those sal_Foo data types, so we
should still leave the definitions of those data types where they are
for the time being.

But in our core code base, using the standard int types should be okay I
think.  Note, I'm heavily biased, and probably overlooking some gotchas.

Kohei

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