linux-kernel - Re: __STRICT_ANSI_

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Date:	Fri, 15 Sep 2006 07:42:58 +0100
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	Ismail Donmez <ismail@...dus.org.tr>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, mchehab@...radead.org
Subject: Re: __STRICT_ANSI__ checks in headers

On Fri, 2006-09-15 at 09:01 +0300, Ismail Donmez wrote:
> Kernel headers currently uses __STRICT_ANSI__ check before defining a long 
> long variable because ANSI-C doesn't allow long long variables. But this 
> seems to harsh because any project including linux/videodev2.h ( and similar 
> ones ) and using -ansi flag will not compile because some types like __s64 
> will not be defined.

One possible fix is to let videodev2.h use int64_t, and in userspace
they can include <stdint.h>

Another is just to declare videodev2.h incompatible with -ansi, or maybe
just omit 'value64' from the union if __STRICT_ANSI__ is defined, and
replace it with an array of two __s32s.

-- 
dwmw2

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