Supporting Data Types "ushort_t" and "uchar_t"

Dave Korn dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com
Wed Aug 12 14:18:00 GMT 2009


Larry Adams wrote:
> Hi list,
>> Are there plans to support these two data types in the near future. I
> just ran across this portability issue a few minutes ago.

 They're not part of the C standard. Are they some definition from the linux
kernel or something?
 POSIX would certainly permit us to add these definitions as an extension(*) so
there shouldn't be any problem if you wanted to submit a patch to newlib (where
Cygwin's types.h comes from).
 cheers,
 DaveK
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