Bugzilla bug 562498: (u)int16 fundamental types

["Michael B. Trausch" <mbt zest trausch us>]

I originally sent this message in July, but it never received any
replies.  This is still an issue, and so I'm hoping that maybe sending
it again would prompt someone to look at the bug.  The bug still exists,
though some of its manifestations have been worked around; it is
blocking at least one other bug at the moment, though.

Hello,

First off, I am not entirely sure if this is the correct mailing list for this 
message; if there is a better one to post to, please direct me to it and 
accept my apologies for the noise.

I've taken the liberty of cleaning up some minor (whitespace) issues with the 
patches on bug 562498 and testing them against the current git tree.  I came 
across this bug while attempting to use a gushort as a property in a Vala 
program, which I discovered (via discussion in the #vala IRC channel) was not 
supported by glib itself.

It seems highly unintuitive to not have a fundamental type for 16-bit 
integers, since there are fundamental types that cover 8, 32, and 64-bit 
integers---particularly since some crazy pedants like myself insist on using 
data types that meet the requirements of the situation in question.  In my 
case, I am working on implementing a FastCGI library in Vala, and many of the 
required numbers are 16-bit integers.  It is possible to use 32-bit integers 
as a stop-gap, but at the expense of additional code in the library that would 
better not be repeated since it can be easily centralized.

I would like to know if there are any issues with the commits attached to the 
bug as they currently stand.  If there are, I am willing to fix them and 
re-submit.  I do not know if it would be possible to get them included for 
2.22, but if so, that would be most excellent.

 	Thanks!
 	Mike