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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: Safety of casting from 'long' to 'int'
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Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:

> I not just like stdint.h*
> I also hate when C programmers define their own fixed-width integer
> types.
>
> [...]
>
> That would raise my blood pressure:
> typedef int32_t s32;
> typedef uint32_t u32;
> typedef uint8_t octet;

Can you say what it is about them that you don't like?
Or why you don't like them?  Are the reasons the same
in all three cases, or is octet different?