netdev - RE: [PATCH bpf-next] tools/bpf: add missing strings.h include

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Date:   Fri, 8 Feb 2019 10:23:19 +0000
From:   David Laight <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:     'Andrii Nakryiko' <andriin@...com>, "yhs@...com" <yhs@...com>,
        "songliubraving@...com" <songliubraving@...com>,
        "ast@...com" <ast@...com>, "kafai@...com" <kafai@...com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "kernel-team@...com" <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH bpf-next] tools/bpf: add missing strings.h include

From: Andrii Nakryiko
> Sent: 07 February 2019 17:50
> 
> Few files in libbpf are using bzero() function (defined in strings.h header), but
> don't include corresponding header. When libbpf is added as a dependency to pahole,
> this undeterministically causes warnings on some machines:
> 
> bpf.c:225:2: warning: implicit declaration of function ‘bzero’ [-Wimplicit-function-declaration]
>   bzero(&attr, sizeof(attr));
>     ^~~~~

Wouldn't it be better to change these to the more portable memset()?

	David

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