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

[Avi Kivity]

On 08/08/2011 04:00 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> 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 :-)

It's not about saving space, it's about improving readability.  We have 
about 21k uses of these types, they deserve short names.

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