Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!border1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!buffer1.nntp.ams1.giganews.com!nntp.brightview.co.uk!news.brightview.co.uk.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 10:38:48 -0600 From: Gareth Owen Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Naming convention for structs and types References: <316df0b2-5692-4eff-8ec7-41ad9ff08d17@googlegroups.com> Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2017 16:38:47 +0000 Message-ID: <87a8au52zs.fsf@gmail.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.5 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:WF7F9w5gh53zSYJ4jLMKsslD/9A= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Lines: 13 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com X-Trace: sv3-u5Lku4JGIW8BOaAsO8UqrWDcH0Lbu+AHZVfzV5BlVpUtQ3KgWXTDkcb2SCZvofa5PWU2K8id4n/kbKn!wvK2xVF+6hUDvlwQj91CgXegvF8BQjbFconMFtyOrUxBh4sSoiLdYBynxXn6KZBm92NdMA== X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.40 X-Original-Bytes: 1623 Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.c:101615 David Brown writes: > On 12/01/17 21:11, Richard Heathfield wrote: >> Certainly true for int*_t and uint*_t, but do you have a citation for >> the more general claim? >> > > It turns up in a few other standard types (size_t, ptrdiff_t, etc.). It > is not unreasonable to expect that it is a convention the C standards > would follow in the future for other new types. But it is not a > convention that is reserved in the C standards. As I'm sure you're aware, it is reserved in POSIX.1