On Fri, 2 Oct 2020 at 09:36, Alejandro Colomar via Gcc <gcc@gcc.gnu.org> wrote: > > Hi Paul, > > On 2020-10-01 19:38, Paul Eggert wrote: > > On 10/1/20 7:35 AM, Alejandro Colomar via Libc-alpha wrote: > >> +The narrowest signed integer type > >> +of a width of at least N bits, > > > > Motivation is missing here. Why is there an int_leastN_t type at all? > > Well, I'd say the motivation is for the standard to allow > unicorn implementations that have types that are not of normal widths > For example, this allows an implementation to have an int of 33 bits, > have int_least32_t be that int, and then not provide int32_t.
C allows that, but POSIX says int32_t is required.
