From: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
To: Thomas Klausner <tk@giga.or.at>, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: portability: types
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2016 09:45:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56D010C4.3000804@ladisch.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160225233124.GA13672@danbala.tuwien.ac.at>
Thomas Klausner wrote:
> The next big issue is that multiple places include Linux specific
> header files, easily recognizable by the path linux/*.h.
Once upon a time, alsa-lib was used only on Linux (and also on old
versions such as 2.2.x).
> I think these are used to define unusual types like __u32, __u64,
> __kernel_off_t, __kernel_pid_t. There are also a number of cases of
> u_xxx_t (which don't exist on Solaris) vs. the uxxx_t defined in C99.
>
> Many of these types have POSIX equivalents, like uint32_t, uint64_t,
> off_t, pid_t.
>
> Would it be better to switch to those, or should we define compat
> #typedefs or #defines in local.h?
Linux-specific types should be used only in code that actually is
Linux specific (i.e., the xxx_hw plugins).
Regards,
Clemens
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-26 8:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-02-18 15:47 feeding back pkgsrc changs Thomas Klausner
2016-02-18 15:51 ` Takashi Iwai
2016-02-23 14:09 ` portability patch: EBADF [was Re: feeding back pkgsrc changs] Thomas Klausner
2016-02-23 15:53 ` Takashi Iwai
2016-02-24 13:16 ` Thomas Klausner
2016-02-24 15:36 ` Takashi Iwai
2016-02-25 23:31 ` portability: types Thomas Klausner
2016-02-26 8:45 ` Clemens Ladisch [this message]
2016-02-29 15:05 ` [PATCH 1/3] Use POSIX uint*_t instead of u_int*_t Thomas Klausner
2016-02-29 15:05 ` [PATCH 2/3] Use pid_t, off_t instead of __kernel_*_t for better portability Thomas Klausner
2016-02-29 16:10 ` Takashi Iwai
2016-03-02 22:14 ` [PATCH] define more missing types for non-Linux Thomas Klausner
2016-03-03 9:32 ` Takashi Iwai
2016-03-03 9:50 ` Thomas Klausner
2016-03-03 9:53 ` Takashi Iwai
2016-03-03 9:55 ` Takashi Iwai
2016-03-03 9:58 ` Thomas Klausner
2016-03-03 10:01 ` Takashi Iwai
2016-03-03 10:10 ` byteswap.h Thomas Klausner
2016-03-03 10:21 ` byteswap.h Takashi Iwai
2016-03-03 11:18 ` byteswap.h Thomas Klausner
2016-03-03 11:37 ` byteswap.h Takashi Iwai
2016-03-03 11:39 ` byteswap.h Thomas Klausner
2016-03-03 12:02 ` Remaining compatibility patches for NetBSD Thomas Klausner
2016-03-03 13:35 ` Takashi Iwai
2016-03-03 13:46 ` Thomas Klausner
2016-03-03 13:54 ` Takashi Iwai
2016-03-03 14:23 ` Thomas Klausner
2016-02-29 15:05 ` [PATCH 3/3] Use uint*_t instead of __le* Thomas Klausner
2016-02-29 15:10 ` [PATCH 4/4] Replace __u* with uint*_t Thomas Klausner
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