From: "Vesa Jääskeläinen" <chaac@nic.fi>
To: The development of GRUB 2 <grub-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: multiboot2.h includes stdint.h - not good
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 20:43:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49C7D857.9070108@nic.fi> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1237827389.25031.24.camel@mj>
Pavel Roskin wrote:
> By the way, I already noticed that the inclusion of stdint.h from
> multiboot2.h is one of the problems preventing cross-compilation of GRUB
> without the libc for the target. Perhaps GRUB should provide its
> replacement for stdint.h when compiling for the target. Alternatively,
> multiboot2.h should use GRUB types.
In grub ecosystem grub_* types should be used to specify arch dependent
types. Where as I favor stdint.h types like uint8_t for many things, the
idea for grub's own replacement is to easily detect wrong types used on
compilation process.
So... stdint.h out... grub types in..
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-23 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-23 16:56 multiboot2.h includes stdint.h - not good Pavel Roskin
2009-03-23 18:43 ` Vesa Jääskeläinen [this message]
2009-03-24 0:38 ` Pavel Roskin
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