[LTP] [PATCH] uapi: Make __{u, s}64 match {u, }int64_t in userspace
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz
Tue Nov 23 10:15:12 CET 2021
Hi!
> I am all for matching __uN / __sN to uintN_t / intN_t in userspace, but may I suggest the technically simpler and guaranteed-to-be-accurate
>
> /*
> - * int-ll64 is used everywhere now.
> + * int-ll64 is used everywhere in kernel now.
> + * In user space match <stdint.h>.
> */
> +#ifdef __KERNEL__
> # include <asm-generic/int-ll64.h>
> +#elif __has_include (<bits/types.h>)
> +# include <bits/types.h>
> +typedef __int8_t __s8;
> +typedef __uint8_t __u8;
> +typedef __int16_t __s16;
> +typedef __uint16_t __u16;
> +typedef __int32_t __s32;
> +typedef __uint32_t __u32;
> +typedef __int64_t __s64;
> +typedef __uint64_t __u64;
> +#else
> +# include <stdint.h>
> +typedef int8_t __s8;
> +typedef uint8_t __u8;
> +typedef int16_t __s16;
> +typedef uint16_t __u16;
> +typedef int32_t __s32;
> +typedef uint32_t __u32;
> +typedef int64_t __s64;
> +typedef uint64_t __u64;
> +#endif
>
> The middle clause could be dropped if we are okay with all uapi headers potentially exposing the non-implementation-namespace names defined by <stdint.h>. I do not know what the musl libc equivalent of <bits/types.h> is.
If it's okay to depend on a header defined by a libc this is better
solution.
--
Cyril Hrubis
chrubis@suse.cz
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