Re: Definitions of types also as macros

[coypu%sdf.org@localhost]

On Tue, Nov 06, 2018 at 08:11:03AM -0800, John Nemeth wrote:
> On Nov 6,  3:07pm, coypu%sdf.org@localhost wrote:
> }
> } I wanna do this, looks good?
> 
>      No.
> 
> } Index: stdint.h
> } ===================================================================
> } RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sys/sys/stdint.h,v
> } retrieving revision 1.7
> } diff -u -r1.7 stdint.h
> } --- stdint.h	22 Apr 2013 21:26:48 -0000	1.7
> } +++ stdint.h	4 Nov 2018 09:35:54 -0000
> } @@ -35,54 +35,54 @@
> }  #include <sys/cdefs.h>
> }  #include <machine/int_types.h>
> }  
> } -#ifndef	int8_t
> } +#ifndef	_BSD_INT8_T_
> }  typedef	__int8_t	int8_t;
> } -#define	int8_t		__int8_t
> } +#define	_BSD_INT8_T_
> }  #endif
> 
>      What's going to define _BSD_INT8_T_ and friends?
> 
>      To me, this looks smells like some kind of gross hack to work around
> broken software.
> 
>      [snip]
> 
> }-- End of excerpt from coypu%sdf.org@localhost

We are. it's a guard to prevent double type definition.