linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Make exported headers use strict posix types

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Date:	Thu, 26 Feb 2009 07:39:46 +0900
From:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@...il.com>,
	mingo@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make exported headers use strict posix types

On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 14:07 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > 
> > Actually, this change does belong in here: This is the only user of u_short
> > in exported headers, and nothing uses u_char, u_int or u_long, so it gets
> > rid of a whole class of types. The only questionable types left after this
> > are the standard stdint.h types, many of which are probably legitimate:
> > 
> 
> Not legitimate in *exported* headers.

Not in the ones which might be included implicitly by glibc, perhaps --
but other non-POSIX headers are perfectly entitled to require C standard
types, surely?

-- 
David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation

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