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From: "J. Neuschäfer" <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
To: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
Cc: "Will Deacon" <will@kernel.org>,
	"Julien Thierry" <julien.thierry.kdev@gmail.com>,
	kvm@vger.kernel.org,
	"Alexandru Elisei" <alexandru.elisei@arm.com>,
	"J . Neuschäfer" <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH kvmtool] remove wordsize.h inclusion (for musl compatibility)
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2024 01:15:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZrALjzvENZLJqhLv@probook> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20240801111054.818765-1-andre.przywara@arm.com>

On Thu, Aug 01, 2024 at 12:10:54PM +0100, Andre Przywara wrote:
> The wordsize.h header file and the __WORDSIZE definition do not seem
> to be universal, the musl libc for instance has the definition in a
> different header file. This breaks compilation of kvmtool against musl.
>
> The two leading underscores suggest a compiler-internal symbol anyway, so
> let's just remove that particular macro usage entirely, and replace it
> with the number we really want: the size of a "long" type.
>
> Reported-by: J. Neuschäfer <j.neuschaefer@gmx.net>
> Signed-off-by: Andre Przywara <andre.przywara@arm.com>
> ---
> Hi,
>
> can someone test this on a proper/pure musl installation? I tested this
> with Ubuntu's musl-gcc wrapper, but this didn't show the problem before,
> so I guess there are subtle differences.

Compile-tested successfully on Alpine Linux 3.21 (gcc 13.2.1, musl 1.2.5).

Thanks a lot!
-- jn

  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-08-04 23:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-08-01 11:10 [PATCH kvmtool] remove wordsize.h inclusion (for musl compatibility) Andre Przywara
2024-08-02  9:55 ` Alexandru Elisei
2024-08-04 23:15 ` J. Neuschäfer [this message]
2024-08-05 13:43 ` Will Deacon

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