In message: <Pine.NEB.4.33.0309211630050.28561-100000@vespasia.home-net.icnt.net>
            Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org> writes:
: On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, M. Warner Losh wrote:
: 
: > In message: <20030921192600.L1261@snowdrop.l8s.co.uk>
: >             David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> writes:
: > : > use {u_,}int32_t instead of {u,}int32(={u_,}long)
: > :
: > : Why?  IIRC uint32_t (and friends) are the 'standard' names and should
: > : be defined by intypes.h.
: >
: > FYI: FreeBSD is moving away from the traditional BSD types (u_intXX_t)
: > to the C99 standardized types (uintXX_t).
: 
: I think that's the NetBSD direction too, but it's rather gentle at the
: moment.

Likewise in FreeBSD.  The change isn't being agressively pursued, but
is happening when people are making other changes in areas of the tree
that have these things in them.

: For everyone watching, note the original change was away from {,u}int32 -
: no _t on the end. Sounds like a good change. :-)

Yes.  I agree.

Warner