Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753491AbXFUXki (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:40:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751015AbXFUXkb (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:40:31 -0400 Received: from mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de ([193.174.154.14]:48016 "EHLO mailhub.fokus.fraunhofer.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750936AbXFUXka (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Jun 2007 19:40:30 -0400 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:38:26 +0200 From: Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (Joerg Schilling) To: david@lang.hm Cc: schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux Kernel include files Message-ID: <467b0bf2.Xfs7T8Ys4nY9ZNLW%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> References: <467afc63.OnsqEXOk5zqMYzym%Joerg.Schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de> In-Reply-To: User-Agent: nail 11.22 3/20/05 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1517 Lines: 37 david@lang.hm wrote: > On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > Is there some hope that at least the Linux kernel interface definition files and > > everything recursively included from these files will be rewritten in vanilla > > ANSI C? > > this has been discussed many times and the answer is that the kernel is > not gong to change it's side of things to ANSI C. > > that doesn't mean that one of the many projects out there to create > seperate interface headers won't do this. The main problems are not really hard to fix...... - Most problems eem to be related to the fact that Linux does not use C-99 based types in the kernel and the related type definitions are not written in plain C. This is something that should be fixed with a source consolidation program or by defining aliases to C-99 types in case the compiler is not GCC. - Other problems are caused by additional tag definitions that could be disabled in case of a non-GCC compile. J?rg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) J?rg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily - 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/