Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] UAPI: Check headers by compiling all together as C++ | Date | Wed, 05 Sep 2018 18:50:42 +0100 |
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Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> > Here's a set of patches that inserts a step into the build process to make > > sure that the UAPI headers can all be built together with C++ (if the > > compiler being used supports C++). All but the final patch perform fixups, > > including: > > Wait, why do we care? What has recently changed to start to directly > import kernel uapi files into C++ code?
There's at least one outstanding bug due to a C++ identifier in the kernel UAPI headers.
Are you saying you explicitly don't want people to be able to use the kernel UAPI headers in C++?
> And if userspace wants to do this, can't they do the C namespace trick > themselves when they do the import? That must be how they are doing it > today, right?
No, because there's no such trick (except with the preprocessor).
David
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