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Message-Id: <200710160054.00138.arnd@arndb.de>
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:53:58 +0200
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: asm-x86/* exported headers using CONFIG_X86_32
While looking through the new header files, I noticed lots of occurences
of #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 in headers files exported for glibc.
This is fundamentally broken because user applications including them
do not know about any CONFIG_* symbols, and if they did, those
would incorrectly describe the ABI.
I guess in most cases, the headers that are interesting to user space
can simply be merged without any such #ifdef remaining, but those
that are still needed should be converted to use #ifdef __x86_64__,
which is set by the compiler.
This is how the other architectures avoid this particular problem.
Arnd <><
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