From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [patch] use __asm__ and __volatile__ in i386/arm/s390 byteorder.h
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:57:33 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4676C78D.8040208@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46769643.7010106@shaw.ca>
Robert Hancock wrote:
>
> If we expect userspace apps to include them, then I would vote for no,
> not for anything outside of #ifdef __KERNEL__ in exported headers. Keep
> in mind also that C++ apps may need to include these as well and those
> extensions don't always play well in C++ mode. (Last instance I ran into
> was the ioctl argument checking macros _IOR, _IOW, etc. that create
> non-compiling code if you use them in a C++ program.)
>
Some of the actual ioctl macros generate silently wrong code if you use
them in a C program.
-hpa
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2007-06-18 14:27 ` [patch] use __asm__ and __volatile__ in i386/arm/s390 byteorder.h Robert Hancock
2007-06-18 17:57 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-06-18 18:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-17 22:33 Mike Frysinger
2007-06-17 22:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-17 23:24 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-17 23:55 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-06-18 8:51 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-18 18:11 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-18 18:21 ` Mike Frysinger
2007-06-18 18:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-18 18:39 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-18 19:00 ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-06-19 4:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
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