Re: [RFC] Splitting out kernel<=>userspace ABI headers

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Sep 02 2005 - 19:08:35 EST


Followup to: <20050902235833.GA28238@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
By author: Erik Andersen <andersen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> <uClibc maintainer hat on>
> That would be wonderful.
> </off>
>
> It would be especially nice if everything targeting user space
> were to use only all the nice standard ISO C99 types as defined
> in include/stdint.h such as uint32_t and friends...
>

Absolutely not. This would be a POSIX namespace violation; they
*must* use double-underscore types.

-hpa
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