Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 29 Aug 2010 21:21:56 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: aligned_{u64,be64,le64} defined in #ifdef __KERNEL__ | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:26:29 +0200
> On Saturday 28 August 2010 01:51:53 Eric Paris wrote: >> I liked this version until I realized that userspace doesn't have >> aligned_u64 as a valid type. > > This looks like an error in include/linux/types.h. The aligned types should > probably not be defined inside #ifdef __KERNEL__.
You can't do this, as it would pollute the POSIX namespace.
If we want a version of this type visible to userspace, it needs to, for example, have double underscores prepended to the type name just as we do for things like __u16 and __u32.
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