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SubjectRe: kernel header separation
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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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