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Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:16:20 -0500
From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux/types.h: always export 64bit aligned defines
On Tuesday 29 January 2008, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Jan 27 2008 21:33, Andrew Morton wrote:
> >On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 04:23:21 -0500 Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
wrote:
> >> Some kernel headers exported to userspace rely on these 64bit
> >> aligned defines. However, they are hidden behind
> >> __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES at the moment which means most of the time,
> >> they're never actually available.
>
> Wrong way.
i'm thinking the right way, i just may not have expressed it completely
clearly ...
> They are inside #ifndef __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES, so
> they _are_ available to userspace.
for all practical purposes, they are not. glibc will define
__KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES because (like a sane C lib), it defines all of the
basic types that the kernel also defines.
-mike
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