2 @section @file{stdint.h}
4 POSIX specification:@* @url{https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9799919799/basedefs/stdint.h.html}
6 Gnulib module: stdint-h
9 Portability problems fixed by Gnulib:
12 This header file is missing on some platforms:
13 OpenBSD 3.8, AIX 5.1, HP-UX 11.11, MSVC 9.
15 This header file is very incomplete on some platforms.
17 The values of @code{SIG_ATOMIC_MIN} and @code{SIG_ATOMIC_MAX} are incorrect
19 FreeBSD 6.2/ia64, FreeBSD 13.0/arm64.
21 The value of @code{WINT_MAX} is incorrect on some platforms:
24 The values of @code{INT8_MAX}, @code{UINT8_MAX} etc. are not usable in
25 preprocessor expressions on some platforms:
28 The values of @code{INTPTR_MAX} and @code{UINTPTR_MAX}, although correctly
29 defined in @code{<stdint.h>}, are replaced by empty values when
30 @code{<limits.h>} or @code{<inttypes.h>} gets included later on some platforms:
31 Solaris 9 with GCC 4.5 or newer.
33 The macros @code{WCHAR_MIN} and @code{WCHAR_MAX} are not defined in
34 @code{<stdint.h>} (only in @code{<wchar.h>}) on some platforms:
37 On some hosts that predate C++11, when using C++ one must define
38 @code{__STDC_CONSTANT_MACROS} to make visible the definitions of
39 constant macros such as @code{INTMAX_C}, and one must define
40 @code{__STDC_LIMIT_MACROS} to make visible the definitions of limit
41 macros such as @code{INTMAX_MAX}.
43 The macro @code{SIZE_MAX} has the wrong type,
44 albeit with the correct value:
45 32-bit glibc 2.24 (on s390 architecture), Mac OS X 10.7.
47 Macros like @code{INTMAX_WIDTH} are not defined on some platforms:
48 glibc 2.24, NetBSD 10.0, many others.
51 Portability problems not fixed by Gnulib:
54 @code{@{uint,int@}_fast@{8,16,32,64@}_t} may not correspond to the fastest
55 types available on the system.
56 Other @code{<stdint.h>} substitutes may define these types differently,
57 so public header files should avoid these types.
59 Macros are used instead of typedefs.
61 Some C preprocessors mishandle constants that do not fit in @code{long int}.
62 For example, as of 2007, Sun C mishandled @code{#if LLONG_MIN < 0} on
63 a platform with 32-bit @code{long int} and 64-bit @code{long long int};
64 this bug was fixed on or before Oracle Developer Studio 12.6
65 (Sun C 5.15 SunOS_sparc 2017/05/30).
66 Some older preprocessors mishandle constants ending in @code{LL}.
67 To work around these problems, compute the value of expressions like
68 @code{LONG_MAX < LLONG_MAX} at @code{configure}-time rather than at
72 The @code{stdint-h} module uses @code{#include_next}. If you wish to install
73 the generated stdint.h file under another name, typically in order to
74 be able to use some of the types defined by stdint.h in your public
75 header file, you could use the following Makefile.am-snippet:
79 BUILT_SOURCES += idn-int.h
80 DISTCLEANFILES += idn-int.h
81 nodist_include_HEADERS += idn-int.h
84 if test -n "$(STDINT_H)"; then \
85 sed -e s/include_next/include/ gl/stdint.h > idn-int.h; \
87 echo '#include <stdint.h>' > idn-int.h; \