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

Besides your awkward naming convention, I think that might be okay. Keep in mind boost does this for you, to help with cross-platform-ability:

#include 

typedef boost::uint8_t byte_t;

Note that usually type's are suffixed with _t, as in byte_t.