Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] use __asm__ and __volatile__ in i386/arm/s390 byteorder.h | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:51:45 +0800 |
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On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 01:24 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 18 June 2007, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 18:33 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > This changes asm() to __asm__() and volatile to __volatile__ so that these > > > headers can be used with gcc's -std=c99. > > > > hmm but the kernel doesn't use -std=c99... > > The byteorder headers are exported to user space through > include/asm-generic/Kbuild.asm, and they are used by a number > of other exported headers, so they should work with any > gcc flags that a user might want to use.
Even those headers which are exported are _still_ kernel headers¹. The 'caveat emptor' principle still applies to them, and we don't have to be _that_ anal about it. GNU extensions (and proper C types, for that matter) should be acceptable, surely?
-- dwmw2
¹ well, except perhaps for the very few headers which get included directly by glibc's headers, but aren't we still pretending that doesn't happen?
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