On Sun, 18 Aug 2013 03:56:01 -0700 Matthew Brush mbrush@codebrainz.ca wrote:
My concern here with stdint.h was that if CHAR_BIT > 8 then C99 forbids an implementation from defining int8_t and if int8_t isn't defined then uint8_t can't be defined. And if this is true [citation needed], and you couldn't rely on (u)int8_t, then might as well just stick to portable GLib typedefs.
In POSIX and Windows, CHAR_BIT is always 8, and we don't really support anything else.
CHAR_BIT may be > 8 if the system can not address 8-bit values, but in that case, no 8-bit integer type will exist, and GLib will be unable to define a gint8 either. Which is not a problem, since GLib (as of 2.37) supports only G_OS_BEOS, G_OS_UNIX and G_OS_WIN32...