[Libevent-users] [Patch] Install autoconf header file as evconfig.h

[William Ahern]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2007 at 04:28:26PM -0800, Dave Gotwisner wrote:
> I personally hate the proliferation of typedefs.

I concur whole heartedly.

> I have seen u8, U8, u_int8, uint8, and many others that all express the
> same thing.  (similarly for 16, 32, and 64 bit sizes).  In all cases that
> I have seen (I admit, I haven't looked recently to see how a DEC-10
> implements this, with it's 10 bit bytes), but, for almost every modern
> implementation I have seen (including MIPS64), char is 8 bits, short is
> 16, long is 32, and long long is 64.

Except on all my machines, where long is 64 bits ;)

My machines being an Alpha, UltraSparc, and AMD64, running variously OpenBSD
or Linux depending on the season.

<snip>
> Note, that this isn't a flame on libevent per se, I take issue with this 
> everywhere (including the companies I have worked at).

In general I like the libevent coding style, w/ the exception of these
typedefs. These typedefs in particular are BSD-derived. Yet, all the BSDs I
know also support the C99 typedefs (sans-underscore); that part I never
understood. (Maybe it was a close call; not sure which came first in
OpenBSD, stdint.h or libevent.)