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.. > > -- > You are receiving this because you were mentioned. > Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: > https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/pull/1511#issuecomment-916737178 -- You are receiving this because you commented. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/pull/1511#issuecomment-916742165 ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-DEV list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-DEV&A=1