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Re: htonl, htons, ntohl and ntohs types
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 04:32:37PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 21 14:11, Lars Munch wrote:
> > My code still gives me warnings due to a problem with stdint.h.
> >
> > The Xint32_t typedef's uses long instead of int:
> >
> > >From stdint.h:
> >
> > typedef long int32_t;
> > typedef unsigned long uint32_t;
> >
> > I think they should be:
> >
> > typedef int int32_t;
> > typedef unsigned int uint32_t;
>
> That's a problem with the code you're working on. If it relies on the
> fact that int32_t resp. uint32_t are typedef'ed as "int", then it
> contradicts the purpose of stdint.h, which is, not relying on the
> definition of underlying datatypes.
Thanks for the explanation and you are absolutely right, but isn't using
long instead of int a potential problem, since long is usually 64bit on
a 64bit system whereas int is usually 32 bit and both 32bit and 64bit
systems?
Regards
Lars Munch
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