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Manipulating Fixed-Width Integer Data Types (O'ReillyNet)

[Posted October 8, 2003 by cook]

Michael Barr writes about fixed data size issues and the ISO C99 standard on O'Reilly. "In the process of manipulating memory-mapped I/O registers, embedded programmers who use C or C++ often require fixed-size integer data types that aren't provided by the language standards. Here's a new look at this old problem, complete with a final solution to the issue of naming fixed-width integer data types."

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