Re: RP2350 and Pico 2 - things missing

On 29/08/2024 10:28, Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote:

On Thu, 29 Aug 2024 09:32:49 +0100
Richard Kettlewell <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote:
 

I don’t think I’d fault either decision though the fact that we’ve ended
up with two conventions does make writing/maintaining portable code a
bit more annoying,

  Portable code should only rely on the standards not
implementations, some very weird possibilities are legal within the
standard.
  There are always the int<n>_t types for when size matters.
 

Yes, from what I remember of the 90s, Microsoft code used typedefs, Int32, Int64 or maybe even Macros for types. Big projects sometimes used their own typedefs. I never liked it. I used int and long, but I recognised my code was suboptimal.
Then I moved to Csharp and Java and stop worrying :-).
C was shit, for not making types explicit, subsequent OS software developers were just polishing the turd.