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Subject: Re: Supporting Data Types "ushort_t" and "uchar_t"
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Larry Adams wrote:
> Hi list,
> 
> Are there plans to support these two data types in the near future.  I
> just ran across this portability issue a few minutes ago.

  They're not part of the C standard.  Are they some definition from the linux
kernel or something?

  POSIX would certainly permit us to add these definitions as an extension(*) so
there shouldn't be any problem if you wanted to submit a patch to newlib (where
Cygwin's types.h comes from).

    cheers,
      DaveK

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(*) - B.2.12 http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/xrat/xsh_chap02.html

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