Re: [PATCH] x86 byteorder.h: use __asm__/__inline__ for userspace

Sam Ravnborg
2008-12-27T19:10:59Z

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 10:58:11AM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >
> > I wnet with the scripted conversion for now.
> > If that does not fly we can come back to this proposal.
> >
> > What I like most with the auto conversion is that we avoid
> > adding yet another special rule about how to do stuff in exported headers.
> >
>
> Indeed, and being keyword conversion, it's independent of context, at
> least as long as one doesn't have too many run-ins with weird uses of
> the # and ## preprocessor operators, which are a *lot* easier to rule
> out globally.

Speaking of what we want to use in exported headers.
What is the recommendation with respect to uint32_t and friends?
To my best knowledge they are banned in exported headers as they
are not part of the kernel namespace and I see few users too.
But is this something we should check for?

Sam