error: unknown type name 'intptr_t'

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liamzebedee picture liamzebedee · Jan 28, 2012 · Viewed 11.2k times · Source

I am receiving this error while compiling a C program in MinGW. As far as I know, I thought 'intptr_t' was a type in the C99 standard. Am I not including a file?

Answer

ouah picture ouah · Jan 28, 2012

You need to include stdint.h.

Note that intptr_t and uintptr_t are indeed C99 types but they are optional.

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