Best Practices: Should I create a typedef for byte in C or C++?

Question

Do you prefer to see something like t_byte* (with typedef unsigned char t_byte) or unsigned char* in code?

I\'m leaning towards

Answer 1

Personally I prefer boost::int8_t and boost::uint8_t.

If you don't want to use boost you could borrow boost\cstdint.hpp.

Another option is to use portable version of stdint.h (link from this answer).