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Re: u_intNN_t for netinet/in.h?

To: Roland McGrath <roland at frob dot com>
Subject: Re: u_intNN_t for netinet/in.h?
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
Date: 23 Aug 2001 22:49:19 -0700
Cc: GNU libc hackers <libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com>
References: <20010824050324.2F2E1994AE@perdition.linnaean.org>
Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:

> When libc is configured for the hurd with libio, including <endian.h> and
> <stdio.h> and <netinet/in.h> does not result in including <sys/types.h>
> (only <bits/types.h>) and so u_int32_t (vs uint32_t) is not defined and so
> the htontest.c test program did not compile until I made it get <sys/types.h>.

<netinet/in.h> is supposed to define uint32_t.  u_intNN_t are the
obsolete BSD types.  They are allowed to be defined (since they have
the _t ending) but shouldn't IMO.  We cannot change it for Linux but
you don't have to add it fur Hurd.  Just replace u_intNN_t with
uintNN_t.

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References:
- u_intNN_t for netinet/in.h?
  - From: Roland McGrath

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