On Apr 11, 2013, at 11:13 AM, Colin Percival wrote:
> On 04/11/13 00:59, Bruce Evans wrote:
>>> Log:
>>> Include types.h for C99 uintXX_t types.
>>
>> This adds namespace pollution that was carefully left out.
>
> ... and as a developer, I wish we left out such namespace pollution more
> often.
>
> I write code on FreeBSD which I then publish with the intention that people
> will
> be able to use it on any POSIX-compliant system, and I've lost count of the
> number of times I've been hit by "this won't build on OS X or Linux because
> you
> forgot to #include <stdint.h>".
Funny this would be mentioned. I've seen the converse a lot with Linux
devs because they fail to understand that headers on Linux #include a lot more
crud than they need to..
Devs in general don't read the [POSIX] manpages like they should to
figure out what needs to be #include'd in order to get function/constant
definitions. Third party devs are usually the worst offenders.
Thanks,
-Garrett
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