Re: [patch] use __asm__ and __volatile__ in i386/arm/s390 byteorder.h

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On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:27:15AM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
> If we expect userspace apps to include them, then I would vote for no, 
> not for anything outside of #ifdef __KERNEL__ in exported headers. Keep 
> in mind also that C++ apps may need to include these as well and those 
> extensions don't always play well in C++ mode. (Last instance I ran into 
> was the ioctl argument checking macros _IOR, _IOW, etc. that create 
> non-compiling code if you use them in a C++ program.)

There's absolutely no reason to obfucate kernel headers for usage in
C++ source files.

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