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From: Ismail Donmez <ismail@pardus.org.tr>
Subject: Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 7724] New: asm/types.h should define __u64 if isoc99
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 23:03:15 +0200
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21 Ara 2006 Per 22:58 tarihinde, David Miller =C5=9Funlar=C4=B1 yazm=C4=
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> From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
> Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:49:54 -0800
>
> > >            Summary: asm/types.h should define __u64 if isoc99
>
> Platform specific bug, and has nothing to do with networking.
>
> This problem will occur with any user visible interface definition
> that uses __u64, and there are several both in and outside the
> networking.

This bug hit KDE modules (kdebase/kdemultimedia/kdetv/...) many times, =
I=20
workarounded with #undef ing __STRICT_ANSI__ before including kernel he=
aders=20
which is well ugly but works.

> x86 and perhaps others protect the __u64 definition with:
>
> 	defined(__GNUC__) && !defined(__STRICT_ANSI__)
>
> for whatever reason, probably to avoid "long long" or something like
> that.  But even that theory makes no sense.

Indeed this restriction just breaks userspace apps.

Regards,
ismail

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