You may have the same experience, programmers usually define different type names for the same data type. For example, a 16 bits unsigned integer could be defined as UINT16, UINT16_T or uint16. This is confusing and making things complicated. After struggling for so many years, I decide to use the standard types defined in stdint.h.
int8_t uint8_t int16_t uint16_t int32_t uint32_t int64_t uint64_t
A good C/C++ compiler should has defined stdint.h in RTS (run-time support) library based on the target CPU model.
Btw, it is also good to have unified syntax for all program codes. For example, a user defined type should always be ended with "_t".
typedef struct{
uint8_t x;
uint8_t y;
}mytype_t;
Where mytype_t is ended with "_t" to indicate that it is a user defined data type.
