Project-wide redefinition of builtin types

[elfeck]

Hello,

I'm writing a library that needs a lot of fixed length integer values such as uint32_t and uint64_t defined as standard in the cstdint header.

For convinience I wanted to write a redefinition header "commons.h" that redefines unsigend int and unsigned long to this types and include this header in all headers.

Drawback: I force the user of my lib to live with this redefinitions when including one of the lib's headers.

What do you think of that approch? Is there a way to elimitnate the drawback while still getting to use the redefined builtins?

Thanks!

[o3hC5Di1]

Hi there,

You may want to consider moving this question to the "general c++ programming" forum.
I'm sure somebody will be happy to help you there.

All the best,
NwN

[Zhuge]

Why not just use the fixed length integer types directly? Is there some reason you absolutely have to use "unsigned int" to mean, say, "uint32_t" instead of simply using "uint32_t"?

If you must, you should put your library code in namespaces so when you do typedefs like that they will be local to your library namespace.