From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be>
Cc: tommy@home.tig-grr.com, laforge@netfilter.org,
acme@conectiva.com.br, netfilter-devel@lists.netfilter.org,
netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: ipt_physdev.c alignment problems on parisc64
Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 23:56:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030916235650.0844021b.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200309170842.17766.bdschuym@pandora.be>
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 08:42:17 +0200
Bart De Schuymer <bdschuym@pandora.be> wrote:
> > Also, adding attributes to user exported structures would need
> > to be done _very_ carefully, as compilation when using such
> > gcc extensions will fail when the user uses '-ansi' on the
> > compiler command line.
>
> Now why on Earth would I have to bother with some luser doing this? I'm not
> the slave of annoying users.
Because you can make his life simpler merely by adding the right
__extension__() around the attribute designation, just like glibc
does in it's headers. It takes nearly no effort on your part and
makes life simpler for everyone writing userspace programs.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-17 6:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-02 14:30 ipt_physdev.c alignment problems on parisc64 Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-09-02 19:16 ` Bart De Schuymer
2003-09-02 20:03 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-09-04 3:04 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-05 15:31 ` Harald Welte
2003-09-09 2:14 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-13 19:59 ` Bart De Schuymer
2003-09-14 2:25 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-15 22:59 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-16 6:05 ` Bart De Schuymer
2003-09-16 6:02 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-16 9:18 ` Henrik Nordstrom
2003-09-16 14:09 ` Harald Welte
2003-09-17 1:16 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-17 21:17 ` Bart De Schuymer
2003-09-19 2:48 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-20 11:32 ` Bart De Schuymer
2003-09-20 16:05 ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-09-22 0:53 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-16 14:06 ` Harald Welte
2003-09-16 15:15 ` Tom Marshall
2003-09-16 15:57 ` Bart De Schuymer
2003-09-17 1:23 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-17 6:42 ` Bart De Schuymer
2003-09-17 6:56 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2003-09-12 1:40 ` jamal
2003-09-12 8:56 ` Harald Welte
2003-09-12 10:56 ` Oskar Andreasson
2003-09-12 12:56 ` jamal
2003-09-12 13:55 ` Oskar Andreasson
2003-09-12 12:54 ` jamal
2003-09-20 5:50 ` Harald Welte
2003-09-21 13:57 ` ppp ifindex WAS(Re: " jamal
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