From e1834435d55e9bfbc006afb0120ef093e201f3f5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: perry <perry@NetBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2005 20:00:04 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] note the intN_t, uintN_t types.

XXX this document is rather musty. It needs a general update.
---
 share/man/man5/types.5 | 15 +++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/share/man/man5/types.5 b/share/man/man5/types.5
index 2159d54471ee..ad0b24c0e503 100644
--- a/share/man/man5/types.5
+++ b/share/man/man5/types.5
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\"	$NetBSD: types.5,v 1.10 2005/12/26 19:48:12 perry Exp $
+.\"	$NetBSD: types.5,v 1.11 2005/12/26 20:00:04 perry Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1980, 1991, 1993
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@
 .\"
 .\"     @(#)types.5	8.1 (Berkeley) 6/5/93
 .\"
-.Dd June 5, 1993
+.Dd December 26, 2005
 .Dt TYPES 5
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -42,6 +42,17 @@ The file
 .Aq Pa sys/types.h
 contains the defined data types used in the kernel (most are
 used throughout the system).
+.Pp
+Note that in
+.Nx
+code, when an integer of a specific width is needed, the C99
+style
+.Vt int8_t, uint8_t, int16_t, uint16_t, int32_t, uint32_t, int64_t, uint64_t
+should be used. The old
+.Bx
+style
+.Vt u_int8_t, u_int16_t, u_int32_t, u_int64_t
+are deprecated.
 .Bd -literal
 #ifndef _SYS_TYPES_H_
 #define	_SYS_TYPES_H_