Calling it just "uint8" could conflict with software which already used it as an identifier, or worse, a macro; on the other hand, names ending with _t are rese

Calling it just "uint8" could conflict with software which already used it as an identifier, or worse, a macro; on the other hand, names ending with _t are reserved (see for instance https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Reserved-Names.html https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Reserved-...), so they could be used by the standard for these new types.