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From: hpa@zytor.com (H. Peter Anvin)
Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting out kernel<=>userspace ABI headers
Date: Sat, 3 Sep 2005 00:07:58 +0000 (UTC)
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Followup to:  <20050902235833.GA28238@codepoet.org>
By author:    Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
> 
> <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...
> 

Absolutely not.  This would be a POSIX namespace violation; they
*must* use double-underscore types.

	-hpa