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SubjectRe: [-mm patch] make types.h usable for non-gcc C parsers
On Tue, Aug 28, 2007 at 12:37:04AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:27:43 +0200 Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Aug 22, 2007 at 03:33:27PM +0200, Gabriel C wrote:
> > >...
> > > WARNING: "div64_64" [net/netfilter/xt_connbytes.ko] has no CRC!
> > >...
> >
> > Patch below.
> >
> > > Regards,
> > >
> > > Gabriel
> >
> > cu
> > Adrian
> >
> >
> > <-- snip -->
> >
> >
> > This patch makes the 64bit integers on 32bit architectures usable for
> > all C parsers that know about "long long".
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
> >
>
> Given that this patch (hopefully) fixes a problem in the current net-2.6.24
> tree, I'm inclined to slip it into mainline immediately.

It fixes a bug exposed by a -mm only patch, not by the net tree
(and 2.6.23-rc3-mm1 doesn't contain the net tree at all).

> But I'd like a better description, please. Which "non-gcc parser" are we
> talking about here? Something under ./scripts/. Well, please identify it,
> and describe what the problem is, and how the proposed patch will address
> it.
>...

It's about parsers like the Sun C compiler and the C parser shipped
with genksyms.

We can fix the C parser shipped with genksyms, but we have nearly the
same problem with userspace C parsers:

These are userspace headers, and we had a bug report that the Sun C
compiler was not able to compile some userspace code.

cu
Adrian

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