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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Make exported headers use strict posix types
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On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 14:07 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> >
> > Actually, this change does belong in here: This is the only user of u_short
> > in exported headers, and nothing uses u_char, u_int or u_long, so it gets
> > rid of a whole class of types. The only questionable types left after this
> > are the standard stdint.h types, many of which are probably legitimate:
> >
>
> Not legitimate in *exported* headers.

Not in the ones which might be included implicitly by glibc, perhaps --
but other non-POSIX headers are perfectly entitled to require C standard
types, surely?

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David Woodhouse Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse@intel.com Intel Corporation



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