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Re: determines if it is a signed type

From Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: determines if it is a signed type
Date 2015-05-19 08:15 -0700
Organization None to speak of
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"Bartc" <bartc@freeuk.com> writes:
[...]
> The C code I 'write' now is largely auto-generated, so I use my own scheme
> too: i32, u32 and so on (partly to keep output files more compact). That
> relies on *one* header file to define those. I think at the moment that
> header file makes use of stdint.h,  but if it has to be changed, it's in
> only one place.

Is using slightly shorter names like i32 rather than standard names
like int32_t really all that helpful?

If you need fixed-size types, I can think of no good reason to
use names other than the ones defined in <stdint.h>.  If you're
stuck using a C implementation that doesn't support <stdint.h>
(and some pre-C99 implementations do support it as an extension),
you can use Doug Gwyn's public-domain "q8" files:

    http://www.lysator.liu.se/%28nobg%29/c/q8/index.html

(The requirements on the representations of the fixed-size types in
<stdint.h> are perhaps more strict than they need to be.  Practically
speaking, I don't consider that a good reason not to use them.)

[...]

> Actually it could do with knowing the size of pointer types too, as that is
> also important, but I don't think C allows you to specify a short or long
> pointer; it only gives you one size per platform/per target architecture. So
> I have to say the target has to be C-32 or C-64. Maybe I should add an
> 'assert' to test this in the generated C.)

C doesn't let you specify the size of a pointer, and it doesn't
guarantee that different pointer types have the same size.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) kst-u@mib.org  <http://www.ghoti.net/~kst>
Working, but not speaking, for JetHead Development, Inc.
"We must do something.  This is something.  Therefore, we must do this."
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determines if it is a signed type asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-05-17 10:07 -0700
  Re: determines if it is a signed type Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-05-17 18:12 +0100
    Re: determines if it is a signed type asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-05-17 10:34 -0700
      Re: determines if it is a signed type asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-05-17 11:09 -0700
      Re: determines if it is a signed type Kusalananda <kusalananda@example.com> - 2015-05-17 18:22 +0000
        Re: determines if it is a signed type asetofsymbols@gmail.com - 2015-05-17 11:31 -0700
          Re: determines if it is a signed type Kusalananda <kusalananda@example.com> - 2015-05-17 19:59 +0000
  Re: determines if it is a signed type Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-17 13:12 -0700
  Re: determines if it is a signed type Morris Dovey <mrdovey@iedu.com> - 2015-05-17 19:08 -0500
    Re: determines if it is a signed type Morris Dovey <mrdovey@iedu.com> - 2015-05-17 19:46 -0500
    Re: determines if it is a signed type Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-18 01:59 +0100
      Re: determines if it is a signed type Morris Dovey <mrdovey@iedu.com> - 2015-05-17 20:10 -0500
      Re: determines if it is a signed type Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-18 00:37 -0700
        Re: determines if it is a signed type Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-18 21:15 +0100
          Re: determines if it is a signed type Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-18 15:15 -0700
        Re: determines if it is a signed type glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-05-18 21:51 +0000
          Re: determines if it is a signed type James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-05-18 18:00 -0400
      Re: determines if it is a signed type glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-05-18 14:37 +0000
        Re: determines if it is a signed type jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-05-18 17:09 +0200
          Re: determines if it is a signed type glen herrmannsfeldt <gah@ugcs.caltech.edu> - 2015-05-18 18:14 +0000
    Re: determines if it is a signed type Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-05-18 06:34 +0100
      Re: determines if it is a signed type Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-18 00:43 -0700
        Re: determines if it is a signed type Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-05-18 13:56 +0100
          Re: determines if it is a signed type Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-18 08:00 -0700
            Re: determines if it is a signed type Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-05-18 20:35 +0100
              Re: determines if it is a signed type jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-05-18 23:08 +0200
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-05-18 22:32 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-05-19 00:44 +0200
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-05-19 00:05 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-05-19 01:43 +0200
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-05-19 01:08 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type "Bartc" <bartc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-19 11:33 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-19 08:15 -0700
                Re: determines if it is a signed type "Bartc" <bartc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-19 19:36 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-19 11:55 -0700
                Re: determines if it is a signed type jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-05-19 11:39 +0200
                Re: determines if it is a signed type "Bartc" <bartc@freeuk.com> - 2015-05-19 11:44 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type jacobnavia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> - 2015-05-19 12:11 +0200
                Re: determines if it is a signed type jadill33@gmail.com - 2015-05-19 05:45 -0700
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-19 15:03 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type jadill33@gmail.com - 2015-05-19 08:46 -0700
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-19 17:08 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type jadill33@gmail.com - 2015-05-19 09:52 -0700
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-19 20:36 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type jadill33@gmail.com - 2015-05-20 07:40 -0700
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-20 23:12 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type jadill33@gmail.com - 2015-05-21 13:52 -0700
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-21 22:48 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type jadill33@gmail.com - 2015-05-22 05:50 -0700
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-05-22 23:14 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type jadill33@gmail.com - 2015-05-26 14:31 -0700
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-05-22 23:32 -0700
                Re: determines if it is a signed type David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-05-20 12:26 +0200
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-05-19 15:28 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type raltbos@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) - 2015-05-23 10:37 +0000
              Re: determines if it is a signed type Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-18 15:21 -0700
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-05-19 00:04 +0100
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-19 08:03 -0700
                Re: determines if it is a signed type David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> - 2015-05-19 08:47 +0200
                Re: determines if it is a signed type Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-19 08:07 -0700
          Re: determines if it is a signed type James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-05-18 11:28 -0400
    Re: determines if it is a signed type Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-05-18 00:40 -0700

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