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Date:	Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:03:15 +0200
From:	Ismail Donmez <ismail@...dus.org.tr>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	akpm@...l.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org, uberlord@...too.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 7724] New: asm/types.h should define __u64 if isoc99

21 Ara 2006 Per 22:58 tarihinde, David Miller şunları yazmıştı: 
> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:49:54 -0800
>
> > >            Summary: asm/types.h should define __u64 if isoc99
>
> Platform specific bug, and has nothing to do with networking.
>
> This problem will occur with any user visible interface definition
> that uses __u64, and there are several both in and outside the
> networking.

This bug hit KDE modules (kdebase/kdemultimedia/kdetv/...) many times, I 
workarounded with #undef ing __STRICT_ANSI__ before including kernel headers 
which is well ugly but works.

> x86 and perhaps others protect the __u64 definition with:
>
> 	defined(__GNUC__) && !defined(__STRICT_ANSI__)
>
> for whatever reason, probably to avoid "long long" or something like
> that.  But even that theory makes no sense.

Indeed this restriction just breaks userspace apps.

Regards,
ismail

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