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Hi Adrian,

Understood. I would prefer that we replace all occurrences of either 
header file with <cstdint>. That provides the best compatibility and 
adheres to what is expected in C++ programs. Otherwise, I totally agree 
with you.

Andy

On Fri, 10 Sep 2021, Adrian Sevcenco wrote:

> @abh3 so, beside of the sl6 error that we have (and this PR is fixing it ), it is _not_ a good practice to use c headers in c++ code, and AFAIK there is always a recommendation to switch to usage of c++ includes (so `we always use either stdint.h or cstdint` is actually the problem that i'm talking about.).
> regarding this present issue, the problem is that c header did not correctly worked on gcc 7.3.0 and the problem is fixed with c++ header. given the wide usage of inttypes.h in xrootd code i gave the suggestion for the wide fix (not just in this file, just use cinttypes everywhere).
> Any other considerations, future developments, whole code refactoring and architecture decisions can be always done in future PRs i would say..
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