[flac-dev] [PATCH] Remove even more CPP hackery

LRN lrn1986 at gmail.com
Thu Feb 9 10:14:01 PST 2012


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On 09.02.2012 21:41, Ben Allison wrote:
>>> Dave Yeo wrote:
>>>> Yes that makes sense. Requiring a C99 compliant compiler
>>>> seems quite
>> reasonable.
>>> Well I'm actually going to be even more reasonable than that.
>>> The only
>> bits of C99 that flac will really require is header file
>>> with C99 standard width integers (int8_t, uint8_t, int16_t
>>> etc). Erik
>> 
>> I would recommend including with the distribution a file for
>> windows developers to use.  It's fairly simple
>> 
>> 
>> /* since windows doesn't have stdint.h */ typedef unsigned
>> __int64 uint64_t; typedef unsigned __int32 uint32_t; typedef
>> unsigned __int16 uint16_t; typedef unsigned __int8 uint8_t; 
>> typedef __int64 int64_t; typedef __int32 int32_t; typedef __int16
>> int16_t; typedef __int8  int8_t; #if defined(_M_IX64) typedef
>> unsigned __int128 uint128_t; typedef __int128 int128_t; #endif
> 
> Also, I agree with the consensus that developers have to #include
> such a file before using including FLAC/all.h This is because many
> Windows developers (such as myself) are likely to already have a
> stdint.h replacement defined somewhere in their project. The other
> choice would be to see if there's some preprocessor symbol commonly
> in use that would indicate that these are defined by the compiler 
> or by preprocessor directives.
Please, exclude us, MinGW users, from this. MinGW comes with stdint.h
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