Re: libc6-dev and /usr/include/asm

[Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl>]

Previously Paul Slootman wrote:
> What I'm wondering is why some program source explicitly needs
> /usr/include/asm/stat.h. I think the official interface is <sys/stat.h>,
> ie. /usr/include/sys/stat.h.  It looks like the program was badly
> written?

Maybe you haven't looked inside headerfiles, but some of the headers
files include asm/* headerfiles themselves:

[random;/usr/include]-147> grep 'asm/' sys/*h
sys/syscall.h:#include <asm/unistd.h>
sys/vm86.h:#include <asm/vm86.h>

Wichert.

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