Re: [patch] Input cleanups for 2.5.29 [2/2]

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
31 Jul 2002 14:42:58 +0100


On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 22:55, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> 1 The typedef name intN_t designates a signed integer type with
> width N, no padding bits, and a two's complement
> representation. Thus, int8_t denotes a signed integer type
> with a width of exactly 8 bits.

And arbitary alignment requirements. At least I see nothing in C99
saying that

uint8_t foo;
uint8_t bar;

isnt allowed to give you interesting suprises

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