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Re: Add <stdint.h> integer width macros

From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
Cc: <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 21:53:50 +0000
Subject: Re: Add <stdint.h> integer width macros
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On Tue, 20 Sep 2016, Paul Eggert wrote:

> On 09/20/2016 01:52 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> > Compiling with -fshort-wchar is not compatible with using glibc; it's an
> > ABI-breaking option.
> 
> That's OK, as stdint.h is also for freestanding programs, where there's no
> wchar_t ABI to break.

But glibc's stdint.h isn't for freestanding programs.  GCC uses its own 
stdint.h for -ffreestanding.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

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