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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..