From: me@sillymon.ch (Silvan Jegen)
To: kernelnewbies@lists.kernelnewbies.org
Subject: single, comprehensive kernel data types document?
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2016 15:08:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0c47f7ea75ba44f3a1fb8835a3df7de8@sillymon.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3e0913de8af67a2489ffa472ea0186f0@mail.vivaldi.net>
Am 2016-04-15 14:37, schrieb John Chludzinski:
> Never use stdint.h? Wasn't that the intent of stdint.h ... for kernel
> code? For embedded code?
I could be wrong about this but the reason for not using it may be that
there is no standard C library where the Kernel lives. Thus using types
from stdint.h would be confusing. Also, the string "u16" is much shorter
than "uint16_t" and thus must surely be faster! :P
Cheers,
Silvan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-04-15 13:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-04-15 12:04 single, comprehensive kernel data types document? Robert P. J. Day
2016-04-15 12:27 ` Greg KH
2016-04-15 12:37 ` John Chludzinski
2016-04-15 13:08 ` Silvan Jegen [this message]
2016-04-15 13:09 ` Daniel.
2016-04-15 13:55 ` Greg KH
2016-04-15 16:28 ` Daniel.
2016-04-15 13:53 ` Greg KH
2016-04-15 15:59 ` Nicholas Mc Guire
2016-04-15 16:18 ` Greg KH
2016-04-15 17:07 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2016-04-15 20:15 ` Greg KH
2016-04-20 20:37 ` Rob Groner
2016-04-21 2:51 ` Greg KH
2016-04-21 12:51 ` Rob Groner
2016-04-21 19:34 ` Josh Cartwright
2016-04-22 2:37 ` Greg KH
2016-04-22 3:02 ` Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu
2016-04-22 3:13 ` Greg KH
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