linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 1/2] libceph: Remove unneeded stddef.h include

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Date:   Mon, 6 Feb 2017 16:16:55 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Stafford Horne' <shorne@...il.com>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     Ilya Dryomov <idryomov@...il.com>, "Yan, Zheng" <zyan@...hat.com>,
        "Sage Weil" <sage@...hat.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org" <ceph-devel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/2] libceph: Remove unneeded stddef.h include

From: Stafford Horne
> Sent: 05 February 2017 07:08
> This was causing a build failure for openrisc when using musl and
> gcc 5.4.0 since the file is not available in the toolchain.
> 
> It doesnt seem this is needed and removing it does not cause any build
> warnings for me.

Hmmm... stddef.h is part of the SuS v2.
Required to get definitions for NULL, offsetof(), ptrdiff_t and size_t.

So any system that is pretending to by unix-like ought to have one.

	David