Re: Why can't we use <stdint.h> definitions?

On Thu, 4 Dec 2025 19:05:55 -0700
Karl Williamson <[email protected]> wrote:

> Advice in perlhacktips says:
> 
> Use C<PERL_INT_FAST8_T> etc as defined in F<handy.h>
> 
> But why is that?  'int_fast8_t' is easier to read and occupies less 
> space, which is why I would prefer to use it.
> 
> Are there really C99 compilers that don't comply with recognizing
> these?

I expect it's probably all just historic baggage, and predates our "use
C99" change in 5.36.

Certainly at this point we make use of C99 types such as `size_t` all
over the place, so I would expect we can use others, such as
`int_fast8_t` as well.

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Paul "LeoNerd" Evans

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