[email protected] wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jun 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
> > Is there some hope that at least the Linux kernel interface definition files and
> > everything recursively included from these files will be rewritten in vanilla
> > ANSI C?
>
> this has been discussed many times and the answer is that the kernel is
> not gong to change it's side of things to ANSI C.
>
> that doesn't mean that one of the many projects out there to create
> seperate interface headers won't do this.
The main problems are not really hard to fix......
- Most problems eem to be related to the fact that Linux does not
use C-99 based types in the kernel and the related type definitions
are not written in plain C. This is something that should be fixed
with a source consolidation program or by defining aliases to
C-99 types in case the compiler is not GCC.
- Other problems are caused by additional tag definitions that could
be disabled in case of a non-GCC compile.
Jörg
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