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

[H. Peter Anvin]

Kyle Moffett wrote:
> 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.

They have to be *double-underscore*.

We have that.  They're called __[su]{8,16,32,64}.

	-hpa
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