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

[Kyle Moffett]

On Sep 2, 2005, at 20:07:58, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 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.

I would actually be more inclined to provide and use types like
_kabi_{s,u}{8,16,32,64}, etc.  Then the glibc/klibc/etc authors would
have the option of just doing "typedef _kabi_u32 uint32_t;" in their
header files.

Cheers,
Kyle Moffett

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