On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 7:35 AM, Diego Biurrun <di...@biurrun.de> wrote:
> The _fast integer types provide no realworld benefits, but may
> introduce portability issues and are just plain ugly.
> ---

If anyone is unconvinced that these types are a huge pain in the ass consider:

int foo () {
uint8_fast_t x = 5;
int y = -2;
return (x > y);
}

And this is not hypothetical. It really did bite us:

http://git.libav.org/?p=libav.git;a=commitdiff;h=51aaf51143825112b0c499a48212e6f086c1a580
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