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From: phk@dk.tfs.com
Subject: Re: misc/3291: md2.h, md4.h, and md5.h headers useless for c++ programms 
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Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:13:29 +0200
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>md4.h now depends on <sys/types.h> for the definition of u32_t.
>This was broken when 64-bit support was fixed (md4.h previously used
>`unsigned long').  This shouldn't be fixed by including <sys/types.h>,
>since <sys/types.h> pollutes the namespace with select and ntoh macros
>and POSIX typedefs.

This was really what I meant to complain about, not cdefs.h.  I Should 
have been more clear there.

>md5.h includes <sys/md5.h> which has the same problem as md4.h and uglier
>ifdefs.

Any good suggestions ?

Making a <sys/types_lite.h> that only have the basic types in it ?  :-)

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