Re: aligned_{u64,be64,le64} defined in #ifdef __KERNEL__

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Monday 30 August 2010 06:21:56 David Miller wrote:
> From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@xxxxxxx>
> Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 03:26:29 +0200
> 
> > On Saturday 28 August 2010 01:51:53 Eric Paris wrote:
> >> I liked this version until I realized that userspace doesn't have
> >> aligned_u64 as a valid type.
> > 
> > This looks like an error in include/linux/types.h.  The aligned types
> > should probably not be defined inside #ifdef __KERNEL__.
> 
> You can't do this, as it would pollute the POSIX namespace.

Good point.

> If we want a version of this type visible to userspace, it needs to,
> for example, have double underscores prepended to the type name just
> as we do for things like __u16 and __u32.

How about something like this?

Thanks,
Andreas

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