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Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready

From	Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.c
Subject	Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready
Date	2023-08-08 23:36 -0700
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Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> writes:

> On 8/6/23 10:07 AM, Malcolm McLean wrote:

[..working on code that uses [u]intN_t from <stdint.h>..]

>> I hacked it.  It's possible to write an MP3 decoder without using
>> any fixed-width type (though you can forgive uint64_t).  But to go
>> through the code taking out all the fixed width dependencies would
>> be quite an undertaking and likely to create errors.  So I just
>> included stdint.h and set the define.  But it's not ideal.
>>
>> The problem is that the preprocessor doesn't understand typedefs.
>> And no-one thought to make stdint.h's include guard part of its
>> public specification.  So there's no way of knowing whether the
>> types have been defined or not.
>
> Except that for every type in stdint.h properly defined DOES have a
> macros defined for it, the XXX_MAX macro.
>
> Of course, some rogue header could define the type but not the
> macro, but it can be argued that such a header is broken.

Changing the code so it avoids the [u]intN_t types altogether
(and no longer needs <stdint.h>) is not hard.  I did it in
about 30 minutes.

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Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-05 02:59 -0700
  Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2023-08-05 03:20 -0700
    Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2023-08-05 03:28 -0700
      Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-05 03:42 -0700
    Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-05 03:41 -0700
      Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2023-08-05 03:46 -0700
        Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-05 03:57 -0700
          Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2023-08-05 05:28 -0700
            Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2023-08-05 06:01 -0700
      Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready fir <profesor.fir@gmail.com> - 2023-08-05 03:49 -0700
      Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-08-05 12:29 +0100
        Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-05 04:38 -0700
  Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-08-05 12:17 +0100
    Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-05 04:19 -0700
      Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-08-05 20:33 +0100
        Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-05 12:39 -0700
          Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-08-05 22:48 +0100
            Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-06 03:21 -0700
              Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2023-08-06 11:01 +0000
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-06 04:36 -0700
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2023-08-06 12:52 +0000
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-06 06:04 -0700
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2023-08-06 13:52 +0000
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-06 07:07 -0700
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2023-08-06 14:47 +0000
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2023-08-06 16:18 +0100
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Kaz Kylheku <864-117-4973@kylheku.com> - 2023-08-06 16:29 +0000
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2023-08-08 16:52 +0200
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2023-08-08 16:37 -0700
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2023-08-08 16:41 -0700
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-08 19:07 -0700
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Richard Damon <Richard@Damon-Family.org> - 2023-08-08 22:32 -0400
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2023-08-08 23:36 -0700
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-08-06 16:02 +0100
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2023-08-08 16:57 +0200
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2023-08-08 15:09 +0000
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-08 08:26 -0700
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2023-08-08 15:55 +0000
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> - 2023-08-08 06:03 -0700
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-08-06 14:36 +0100
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2023-08-06 14:03 -0700
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-07 01:41 -0700
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2023-08-07 13:09 +0200
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-07 04:59 -0700
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready jak <nospam@please.ty> - 2023-08-07 16:53 +0200
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-07 08:27 -0700
                Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Malcolm McLean <malcolm.arthur.mclean@gmail.com> - 2023-08-07 09:44 -0700
        Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Bart <bc@freeuk.com> - 2023-08-06 16:44 +0100
          Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-08-06 17:56 +0100
  Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2023-08-05 14:38 +0000
    Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2023-08-05 15:29 +0000
      Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2023-08-05 17:47 +0000
        Blah, blah, blah (Was: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready) gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2023-08-05 18:44 +0000
  Re: Baby X resource compiler nearly ready Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2023-08-06 15:52 +0100

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