The history of stdint.h ?

[David Cuthbert]

walt wrote:
Thanks!  I do have a puzzle for you:  I've been comparing several
OS's and find they are remarkably different WRT stdint.h.
Depending on the OS, the appearance and content of stdint.h vary for 
compatibility reasons.

The features provided by stdint.h -- stuff like int8_t, int16_t, etc. -- 
were always needed.  Unfortunately, there was no one way to providing it 
-- some folks used #ifdef checks on compilers/OSes/architectures, others 
used autoconf, etc.

Which standard the "std" in "stdint.h" respresents is up for 
considerable debate.  I'm most familiar with what C99 requires; others 
have mentioned the Single Unix Specification.  But until these see more 
widespread adoption, all you can depend upon is it being the standard 
for release X of OS Y on architecture Z -- which might even mean it 
doesn't exist at all (e.g., FreeBSD 4.8).