From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932121AbVLaJzK (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Dec 2005 04:55:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932130AbVLaJzK (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Dec 2005 04:55:10 -0500 Received: from nproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.182.198]:19400 "EHLO nproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932121AbVLaJzI convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Sat, 31 Dec 2005 04:55:08 -0500 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=HQ51yI+1K0li97c3qlLerUduUMoyAqtsz2jsM4K5lZStQwqL2tygEz341jwEPXyaC3bW27H3iKFsM8zFOw+LUQ7J9b9yHWR7wStlliqcGlkQtuvweho7FDAyKErKH89v9PtSZJ2eI/iS/CrUY9CPsWD+QoRRHnivLxcp7QvKIlg= Message-ID: <84144f020512310155r4e99006cn21c5d622b544baa1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 11:55:06 +0200 From: Pekka Enberg To: Jeff Sipek Subject: Re: Integer types Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20051231084719.GA6702@optonline.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20051231084719.GA6702@optonline.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/31/05, Jeff Sipek wrote: > What's the prefered integer type for kernel code? > > * u8, u16, ... > * uint8_t, uint16_t, ... > * u_int8_t, t_int16_t, ... >>From the above list, the first ones. See http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/259313. Please note that there's also __le32 and __be32 for variables that have fixed byte ordering. Pekka