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Misleading reference to "extended integer types" in foreword

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The Foreword of the C99 standard includes an informal list of the
changes from C90/C95 to C99.  It includes the following:

    -- extended integer types and library functions in <inttypes.h>
       and <stdint.h>

This could imply that the types defined in <stdint.h> (such as int32_t)
are "extended integer types" in the sense defined in 6.2.5.  In fact,
they're typically typedefs for standard integer types (though they *can*
be typedefs for extended integer types).

I suggest that that bullet point should be split into two, one for the
optional extended integer types defined in 6.2.5, and one for
<inttypes.h> and <stdint.h>.

A couple of other minor things I noticed (one of which I think I've
already mentioned):

In the Foreword, "mixed declarations and code" would be clearer as
"mixed declarations and statements".  (Declarations are code.)

In 6.2.5p7:

    The standard signed integer types and standard unsigned integer
    types are collectively called the _standard integer types_,
    the extended signed integer types and extended unsigned integer
    types are collectively called the _extended integer types_.

the comma should be a semicolon (or it could be two sentences).

(All of these are still present in N1570.)

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Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
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Misleading reference to "extended integer types" in foreword Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2011-07-13 12:31 -0700

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