From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kernel header separation
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 17:22:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jeoexvuwxb.fsf@sykes.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030908144232.GP18654@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (Matthew Wilcox's message of "Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:42:32 +0100")
Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> writes:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:32:49AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 10:25:45AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>> > Whenever I see "__u8", I think "non-standard, gcc-specific dependency"
>>
>> Ignore this, I stand corrected: these are kernel types.
>>
>> Regardless, I still prefer the C99 size-specific types, as they are the
>> most portable across all compilers, and you can depend on the compiler
>> to provide them for you. No need to define them yourself.
>
> bzzt. glibc provides them, not gcc.
Actually, a freestanding environment is required (in C99) to provide
<stdint.h>. gcc isn't quite there yet.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-08 15:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-02 19:16 Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-03 1:49 ` Erik Andersen
2003-09-05 14:36 ` David Woodhouse
2003-09-05 21:10 ` Erik Andersen
2003-09-05 14:41 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-05 21:16 ` Erik Andersen
2003-09-05 23:22 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-08 13:38 ` David Woodhouse
2003-09-08 14:12 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-08 14:25 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-08 14:31 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-08 14:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-09-08 14:42 ` Matthew Wilcox
2003-09-08 15:22 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2003-09-08 14:37 ` Andreas Schwab
2003-09-08 20:23 ` David Garfield
2003-09-08 20:34 ` Andries Brouwer
2003-09-08 21:05 ` David Garfield
2003-09-08 20:43 ` Erik Andersen
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