[Nexus-developers] napi tests and documentation

[Akeroyd, FA (Freddie)]

It appears that C99 compliant compilers will define types such as int8_t and
int32_t in <stdint.h> - see e.g.
http://www.embedded.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=17300092 

Freddie

> > > 2) Document in napi.h what the c types are for
> > > NX_INT[8,16,32] and NX_UINT[8,16,32]. I just spent way to long
> searching
> > > through test and example programs looking for something that would be
> > > much easier in the header file itself.
> > >
> >   This is dicey as these things can differ between platforms and even
> >   between compiler implementations on the same platform.
> >
> >                           Mark
> >
> Many compilers/systems these days define types such as int8_t or INT8 etc.
> I'm not up with the current ISO C standard, but maybe there are now size
> specific types defined there that we can safely use? Alternatively, we
> would
> need to define our own type names (NXINT8 etc.) and have these mapped to
> the
> appropriate operating system types as part of the autoconf "configure"
> process
> 
> Freddie
>