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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Variable types that start with "g"

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:17:51 -0800
On Feb 21, 2012, at 9:52 AM, Matthew Harelick wrote:

> Where do I find the definitions for these types?

See Gerald's reply.

> How are they different from things like uint8 found in <stdint.h>

They're available even on platforms that don't have things such as uint8 in <stdint.h>.  (Note that one of the major platforms on which we build comes from a vendor whose compiler+include files+libraries support C89 but not C99.)