linux-kernel - Re: Linux Kernel include files

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Date:	Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:38:26 +0200
From:	Joerg.Schilling@...us.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling)
To:	david@...g.hm
Cc:	schilling@...us.fraunhofer.de, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux Kernel include files

david@...g.hm wrote:

> On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
> > Is there some hope that at least the Linux kernel interface definition files and
> > everything recursively included from these files will be rewritten in vanilla
> > ANSI C?
>
> this has been discussed many times and the answer is that the kernel is 
> not gong to change it's side of things to ANSI C.
>
> that doesn't mean that one of the many projects out there to create 
> seperate interface headers won't do this.

The main problems are not really hard to fix......

-	Most problems eem to be related to the fact that Linux does not
	use C-99 based types in the kernel and the related type definitions 
	are not written in plain C. This is something that should be fixed
	with a source consolidation program or by defining aliases to 
	C-99 types in case the compiler is not GCC.

-	Other problems are caused by additional tag definitions that could
	be disabled in case of a non-GCC compile.

Jörg

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