Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86 byteorder.h: use __asm__/__inline__ for userspace | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:44:18 +0000 |
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On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 20:12 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > Speaking of what we want to use in exported headers. > What is the recommendation with respect to uint32_t and friends? > To my best knowledge they are banned in exported headers as they > are not part of the kernel namespace and I see few users too. > But is this something we should check for?
No, they're not banned. There are a few cases where they can't be used and we have to use the kernels "speshul" __u32 types, because certain headers get included by glibc and we can't "pollute" the namespace with the C standard types. But in _most_ cases, using the standard C types is just fine.
-- David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation
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