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Re: [PATCH v2] scsi/sg.h: include stddef.h for size_t
On Sun, 13 Jan 2013, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> This header uses size_t but doesn't include stddef.h for it. So when
> packages happen to include this before any header that defines size_t,
> they get a build failure.
stddef.h defines offsetof; I don't see any good reason for that to be
defined by this header. If size_t is all that's wanted from stddef.h, I
think you should define __need_size_t before the #include to avoid
bringing in other extraneous definitions such as offsetof.
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Joseph S. Myers
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