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From: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
To: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting out kernel<=>userspace ABI headers
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On Fri Sep 02, 2005 at 04:51:49PM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote:
> On Sep 2, 2005, at 09:41:09, Erik Andersen wrote:
> >Have you seen the linux-libc-headers:
> >    http://ep09.pld-linux.org/~mmazur/linux-libc-headers/
> >which, while not an official part of the kernel, do a pretty
> >good job...
> 
> Well, the eventual goal of this project would be to eliminate the
> need for linux-libc-headers by making that task trivial (IE: Just copy
> the kcore/ and kabi/ (or whatever they get called) directories into
> /usr/include.

<uClibc maintainer hat on>
That would be wonderful.
</off>

It would be especially nice if everything targeting user space
were to use only all the nice standard ISO C99 types as defined
in include/stdint.h such as uint32_t and friends...

 -Erik

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