From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com>,
Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [2.6 patch] asm-generic/int-ll64.h: always provide __{s,u}64
Date: Mon, 19 May 2008 16:51:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <48321299.80303@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080519223232.GB17716@cs181133002.pp.htv.fi>
Adrian Bunk wrote:
>>>
>> If it is going to be unconditionally offered, we could get rid of
>> __BYTEORDER_HAS_U64__ as a next step. Unless there is something I've
>> missed.
>
> Why do we need the byteorder headers in userspace at all?
>
Because Linux-specific software has depended on them for over 15 years
(they are a much better API than anything POSIX provides.) We can't
just yank them, and so it's better if they actually work.
Yes, you can argue it should be glibc's job to provide them, but well,
why duplicate work when we already have a nicely working set.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-19 23:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-19 21:54 [2.6 patch] asm-generic/int-ll64.h: always provide __{s,u}64 Adrian Bunk
2008-05-19 22:01 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-19 22:27 ` Harvey Harrison
2008-05-19 22:29 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-19 22:32 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-19 23:51 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-05-20 0:13 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-20 0:17 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-20 0:33 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-20 1:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-05-20 9:09 ` Adrian Bunk
2008-05-20 14:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
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