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+#ifndef _CYGWIN_INTTYPES_H
+#define _CYGWIN_INTTYPES_H
+/* /usr/include/inttypes.h for CYGWIN
+ * Copyleft 2001-2002 by Felix Buenemann
+ * <atmosfear at users.sourceforge.net>
+ *
+ * Should be installed into /usr/include
+ * as inttypes.h
+ */
+#if 0
+typedef char *  caddr_t;
+typedef char int8_t;
+typedef unsigned char u_int8_t;
+typedef short int16_t;
+typedef unsigned short u_int16_t;
+typedef int int32_t;
+typedef unsigned int u_int32_t;
+typedef long long int64_t;
+typedef unsigned long long u_int64_t;
+typedef int32_t register_t;
+#else
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#endif /* 0/1 */
+typedef u_int8_t uint8_t;
+typedef u_int16_t uint16_t;
+typedef u_int32_t uint32_t;
+typedef u_int64_t uint64_t;
+#endif /* _CYGWIN_INTTYPES_H */
+