Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Introduce short names for fixed width integer types

[Anthony Liguori]

On 08/08/2011 07:56 AM, Avi Kivity wrote:
> QEMU deals with a lot of fixed width integer types; their names
> (uint64_t etc) are clumsy to use and take up a lot of space.
>
> Following Linux, introduce shorter names, for example U64 for
> uint64_t.

Except Linux uses lower case letters.

I personally think Linux style is wrong here.  The int8_t types are 
standard types.

Besides, we save lots of characters by using 4-space tabs instead of 
8-space tabs.  We can afford to spend some of those saved characters on 
using proper type names :-)

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity<address@hidden>
> ---
>   qemu-common.h |    9 +++++++++
>   1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/qemu-common.h b/qemu-common.h
> index 0fdecf1..52a2300 100644
> --- a/qemu-common.h
> +++ b/qemu-common.h
> @@ -112,6 +112,15 @@ static inline char *realpath(const char *path, char 
> *resolved_path)
>   int qemu_main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp);
>   #endif
>
> +typedef int8_t   S8;
> +typedef uint8_t  U8;
> +typedef int16_t  S16;
> +typedef uint16_t U16;
> +typedef int32_t  S32;
> +typedef uint32_t U32;
> +typedef int64_t  S64;
> +typedef uint64_t U64;
> +
>   /* bottom halves */
>   typedef void QEMUBHFunc(void *opaque);