<linux/types.h> or <asm/types.h> ?

[Mike Frysinger]

On Saturday 29 September 2007, Metuki Sabhe wrote:
> I need to use types like __u8 in my Linux application
> (which should work on many architectures).
>
> Should I use <linux/types.h> or <asm/types.h> ?
>
> What's the difference actually ? why hold two files with
> similar declarations ?

this isnt a glibc question as neither of those headers are provided by glibc

a proper application should never use types like __u8 which means they should 
never pull in linux/types.h or asm/types.h

there's a reason *standard* types like uint8_t exist
-mike
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