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According to Samuel Thibault on 4/21/2006 6:17 AM:
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>> The Xint32_t typedef's uses long instead of int:
> 
> That's on purpose: on windows, ints are 16bits.

Maybe in Microsoft, but this is the cygwin list, and in cygwin, ints are
32 bits.  And until someone ports cygwin to a 64-bit version of Windows,
longs are also 32 bits.  Using uint32_t isolates you from whatever size
the underlying int or long are while guaranteeing 32-bit semantics; and
your code is buggy if it depends on the underlying type of uint32_t.

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