Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262489AbTIHPXf (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 11:23:35 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262460AbTIHPXf (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 11:23:35 -0400 Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:57029 "EHLO Cantor.suse.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262489AbTIHPXd (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Sep 2003 11:23:33 -0400 To: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Jeff Garzik , Alan Cox , David Woodhouse , Erik Andersen , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: kernel header separation References: <20030902191614.GR13467@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20030903014908.GB1601@codepoet.org> <20030905144154.GL18654@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <20030905211604.GB16993@codepoet.org> <20030905232212.GP18654@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> <1063028303.32473.333.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <1063030329.21310.32.camel@dhcp23.swansea.linux.org.uk> <20030908142545.GA3926@gtf.org> <20030908143249.GA4462@gtf.org> <20030908144232.GP18654@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> From: Andreas Schwab X-Yow: Yow! Am I having fun yet? Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2003 17:22:56 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20030908144232.GP18654@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> (Matthew Wilcox's message of "Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:42:32 +0100") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1148 Lines: 29 Matthew Wilcox 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 . gcc isn't quite there yet. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de SuSE Linux AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19, D-90429 N?rnberg Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/