"CBFalconer" <cbfalconer@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Martin Wells wrote:
>>
> ... snip ...
>>
>> I think a fair few embedded programmers are starting to use things
>> like int_fastest_at_least_8 which are defined in C99.
>>
>> To be a fully-portable programmer both for PC's and for embedded
>> systems, should we start using these <stdint.h> types?
>
> No. They (and we) should avoid them. They are not portable,
> because they are not universally available (as are byte, int, long)
> and are also a C99 construct. Note that even a C99 system will not
> necessarily make those types available, because they are hardware
> dependant.
Interpersonal normative statement => philosophically unintelligible.

> because they are hardware
> dependant.
As, usual, you err.
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