[Bro-Dev] Bro internal integers types. Use stdint.h

Robin Sommer robin at icir.org
Fri Nov 5 19:05:32 PDT 2010


On Fri, Nov 05, 2010 at 18:26 -0700, you wrote:

> As part of the planned event engine cleanup, I suggest that we
>   a) make sure that everything that can potentially overflow (counters)
>      are 64 bit wide (in addition to enabling --enable-int64)
>   b) use the standard type uint64_t, int32_t, etc. from inttypes.h (*)
>   c) use the PRI* macros for *printf formatting (also from inttypes.h)

Ack. 

My only concern is that I think Vern and I have discussed something
along these lines in the past and there was some road-block. Vern,
do you remember anything in that regard? 

Robin

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