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Re: rfc: C99 style of the uintN_t types



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<5ec8ebd50808121138h2010ebf1j6149dba75edbc877%mail.gmail.com@localhost>, "Andy
 Shevchenko" writes:
>Ok, why _still_ the 40% in sys/arch has the obsoleted style?

Because there's no immediate reason to change it.

Don't get me wrong.  I would love to see completely universal adoption of the
C99 type names; they are better and more expressive, and more clearly defined
semantically.

But that's not a good enough reason to go around changing substantial hunks of
code.

-s


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