Bug#231972: Has a decision been made on this?
On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 02:17:53AM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> I also fully agreed. The latest kernel uses __STRICT_ANSI__ in only
> types.h and byteorder.h for each architecture. But there are a lot of
> __s64 and __u64 use without __STRICT_ANSI__ ifdefs in the kernel
> headers even if that clause is excluded from __KERNEL__. This means
> that we don't care about this problem. And nowadays we're moving
> standard to ISO C99, and that includes "long long".
>
> The only remained problem is: the default standard of gcc 3.3 is not
> ISO C99. But "long long" works with even gcc 2.95.3 (which is at
> least required for kernel 2.6 compilation). So it's not exact
> problem.
>
> Attached patch removes all __STRICT_ANSI__ from the latest kernel
> 2.6.6 and today's bk. I'll ask it to lkml and put this patch into lkh
> cvs, if you have no objection.
Have you tried building lkh with this patch? The included testsuite
will fail unless I'm very confused. If you remove the __STRICT_ANSI__,
you will need to add strategic uses of __extension__.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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