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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Alejandro Colomar <colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>, mtk.manpages@gmail.com
Cc: linux-man@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org, gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/4] system_data_types.7: Add int_leastN_t family of types
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2020 10:38:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b116e906-2a5d-1a7e-2969-52036ab3e8c3@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201001143535.98990-2-colomar.6.4.3@gmail.com>

On 10/1/20 7:35 AM, Alejandro Colomar via Libc-alpha wrote:
> +The narrowest signed integer type
> +of a width of at least N bits,

Motivation is missing here. Why is there an int_leastN_t type at all? Also, on 
all glibc platforms, int_leastN_t is equivalent to intN_t; this should probably 
be mentioned.

Similarly for int_fastN_t.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-01 17:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-01 14:35 [PATCH v2 0/4] Document [u]int_leastN_t Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-01 14:35 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] system_data_types.7: Add int_leastN_t family of types Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-01 17:38   ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2020-10-02  8:35     ` Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-02 13:09       ` Jonathan Wakely
2020-10-01 14:35 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] int_least8_t.3, int_least16_t.3, int_least32_t.3, int_least64_t.3, int_leastN_t.3: New links to system_data_types(7) Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-01 15:26   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-10-01 14:35 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] system_data_types.7: Add uint_leastN_t family of types Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-01 15:26   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
2020-10-01 14:35 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] uint_least8_t.3, uint_least16_t.3, uint_least32_t.3, uint_least64_t.3, uint_leastN_t.3: New links to system_data_types(7) Alejandro Colomar
2020-10-01 15:26   ` Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)

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