[Cuis-dev] [Integrated] Should we rename these? Re: support for variable indexable subclasses of 8/16/32/64 bits

Andres Valloud ten at smallinteger.com
Mon May 27 11:53:56 PDT 2019


On 5/27/19 08:25, Justin Davis via Cuis-dev wrote:

> As already discussed the C naming is pretty terrible and ambiguous, even 
> within
> C itself! Many C libraries that care about this ambiguity use elaborate
> preprocessing and only declare variables with macros (i.e. Win32 with DWORD,
> QWORD).

Backwards compatibility aside, see stdint.h.  But for some reason, it's 
still not as popular as one would expect, 20 years after it was introduced.

Andres.


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