Re: Suggested method for returning a string from a C program?

On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 15:40:20 +0000
bart <bc@freeuk.com> wibbled:

On 20/03/2025 14:50, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:

On Thu, 20 Mar 2025 14:00:29 +0000
bart <bc@freeuk.com> wibbled:

On 20/03/2025 13:36, Scott Lurndal wrote:

Using the defined width types is far better (e.g. uint64_t);
even if the standard allows the type to not exist on a particular
implementation.  No useful implementation would fail to define
uint64_t in these modern times.

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The point was made earlier on that int64_t types are awkward to work
with; they need that stdint.h header to even exist, and they need those
ugly macros in inttypes.h to print out their values.

 
I've never found them awkward to work with and every *nix I've ever developed

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on had stdint.h. If Windows doesn't thats Window's problem.

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stdint.h is part of a C compiler; it's nothing to do with Windows. My
remark was about having to write '#include <stdio.h>' on each one of the
100 modules of your project if you want tto use basic language data types.

Or you could just include your own header that pulls in all the system ones
and has all your own definitions too. Thats what most people do.