David Woodhouse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 01:38 +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > The main problems are not really hard to fix...... > > > > - Most problems eem to be related to the fact that Linux does not > > use C-99 based types in the kernel and the related type definitions > > are not written in plain C. This is something that should be fixed > > with a source consolidation program or by defining aliases to > > C-99 types in case the compiler is not GCC. > > > The argument has been made that the standard C99 types are _optional_, > and anything included from a C library's headers without _explicitly_ > being included by the user shouldn't define those types.
???? This uses double negation and is close to unreadable. A kernel include file that defines an interface to a user space program should be self containing (that means that all includes for all non-standard types should be done inside these include files). Whether or not C-99 types are used or not is less important than to use type definitions written in clean C so compilers other than gcc may use them. > Personally, I think that's a load of bollocks. And it certainly doesn't > apply to Linux-specific files like <linux/cdrom.h>, which are perfectly > entitled to use a C standard from last millennium, regardless of > namespace 'pollution' issues. That's why we continue to use the crappy > __u32 types. Can you be more specific about why this is a problem? Don't > we mostly define those crappy types using arch-specific knowledge, as > 'int', 'long', etc? I recommend you to install Sun Studio and to try to compile star or cdrtools using Sun Studio by calling "make CCOM_suncc". ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/star/alpha/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/cdrecord/alpha/ You may need to hand edit the file incs/<arch-dir>/{xconfig.h!rules.conf} in order to enable the auto-disabled features. In any case, self reading the error messages from Sun Studio helps more than trying to discuss it. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
