samba4: unsigned char -> uint8

[Christopher R. Hertel]

On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 10:35:45PM +1000, Andrew Bartlett wrote:
:
> There seems to be some '_t' is better syndrome.  Why exactly is that? 
> What is wrong with the historic, provided types, where the particular
> size doesn't matter?

We discussed a while ago using the ISO C99 7.18 Integer types.  They're 
defined in <stdint.h>.  The plan, as I understood it, was to use these for 
any expose APIs that Samba offers and also in any situation where we were 
creating a typedef or struct.  Particularly those holding data to be used 
on the wire.

As Jeremy rightly points out, however, we have to do conversions 
(carefully) when using these values with system calls that use older 
conventions.

Personally, I think that the history of C has left things a little muddled 
in this area.

Chris -)-----

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