Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:38:26 +0200 | From | (Joerg Schilling) | Subject | Re: Linux Kernel include files |
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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.
Jörg
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