[Freeciv-Dev] Re: (PR#13464) use stdint.h in dataio

["Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa" <vasc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

<URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13464 >

On Tue, 12 Jul 2005, Jason Short wrote:

> <URL: http://bugs.freeciv.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=13464 >
>
> This patch uses stdint types in dataio.  This is somewhat more safe than
> using the regular "unsigned int", "unsigned short" types.  I don't know
> if it's fully safe however; you'd have to read the C99 spec to be sure.

It should be safe according to:
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/stdint.h.html

> This patch requires the AC_C99_STDINT_H patch.

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Vasco Alexandre da Silva Costa @ Instituto Superior Tecnico, Lisboa