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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [patch] use __asm__ and __volatile__ in i386/arm/s390 byteorder.h
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:57:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4676C78D.8040208@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46769643.7010106@shaw.ca>

Robert Hancock wrote:
> 
> If we expect userspace apps to include them, then I would vote for no,
> not for anything outside of #ifdef __KERNEL__ in exported headers. Keep
> in mind also that C++ apps may need to include these as well and those
> extensions don't always play well in C++ mode. (Last instance I ran into
> was the ioctl argument checking macros _IOR, _IOW, etc. that create
> non-compiling code if you use them in a C++ program.)
> 

Some of the actual ioctl macros generate silently wrong code if you use
them in a C program.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-18 18:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2007-06-18 14:27       ` [patch] use __asm__ and __volatile__ in i386/arm/s390 byteorder.h Robert Hancock
2007-06-18 17:57         ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2007-06-18 18:12         ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-17 22:33 Mike Frysinger
2007-06-17 22:51 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-06-17 23:24   ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-17 23:55     ` Mike Frysinger
2007-06-18  8:51     ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-18 18:11     ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-18 18:21       ` Mike Frysinger
2007-06-18 18:34 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-18 18:39   ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-18 19:00   ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-06-19  4:15     ` Christoph Hellwig

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