Re: [PATCH] Make exported headers use strict posix types

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Feb 25 2009 - 19:05:34 EST


David Woodhouse wrote:
Not legitimate in *exported* headers.

Not in the ones which might be included implicitly by glibc, perhaps --
but other non-POSIX headers are perfectly entitled to require C standard
types, surely?

It doesn't make any sense, though, when there is a straighforward way to deal without.

Now, for source code maintainability reasons I still believe this should be done mechanically instead of having to edit the source all over the place.

-hpa

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