linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL -tip] fix 33 make headers

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Message-ID: <497A3793.5090502@zytor.com>
Date:	Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:33:07 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
CC:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...nel.org>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	urs.thuermann@...kswagen.de, oliver.hartkopp@...kswagen.de,
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	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL -tip] fix 33 make headers_check warnings

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> I had an objection as previously stated -- namely that
> <stdint.h> should be included to remain friendly to C++0x
> programs which should use <cstdint> instead. Forcing
> stdint.h is therefore not nice.
> 

FWIW, it's kind of pointless in that case; <cstdint> exports it into the 
std:: namespace rather than the root namespace, so using stdint types 
still don't work.

It again comes down to: for headers exported to userspace we *have* to 
use double-underscore types.

	-hpa
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