including C header "stdint.h" in C++

[J. Campbell]

I'm wondering if there are any compelling reasons NOT to use the types
defined in stdint.h in c-programms?

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[gabriel]

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Portability to older compilers?

 

[Jeff Schwab]

I'm wondering if there are any compelling reasons NOT to use the types
defined in stdint.h in c-programms?

Please refer to this thread:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&[email protected]

Thanks

1) It's not standard C++.

2) numeric_limits provides a solution that is.

 

[Alf P. Steinbach]

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1) It's not standard C++.

It will be (at least, all indications are that it will be).

2) numeric_limits provides a solution that is.

Nope. No fixed sized or minimum size types in numeric_limits.

 

[E. Robert Tisdale]

I'm wondering if there are any compelling reasons
NOT to use the types defined in <stdint.h> in C 99 programs?

These definitions have not been included in the ANSI/ISO C++ standards
[yet] -- there is no standard <cstdint> header file yet.

Try defining your own:

#ifndef GUARD_CSTDINT
#define GUARD_CSTDINT 1
#include <stdint.h>
#endif//GUARD_CSTDINT

 

[Jeff Schwab]

It will be (at least, all indications are that it will be).

When it is, I'll use it.

Nope. No fixed sized or minimum size types in numeric_limits.

You're right, but it's not hard to use numeric_limits to find out what
sizes are available, and typedef them accordingly. This is what I do
for code that must run on both 32- and 64-bit systems.

Well, perhaps I'll give stdint a look.

 

[Frank Schmitt]

It will be (at least, all indications are that it will be).



Nope. No fixed sized or minimum size types in numeric_limits.

You could use boost/cstdint.hpp for this
See http://www.boost.org/libs/integer/cstdint.htm

kind regards
frank