[RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__

Andreas Schwab schwab@suse.de
Tue Dec 14 16:55:00 GMT 2004


Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> This is a common issue with namespace pollution. For example, this program 
> is perfectly valid afaik (well, except for being _stupid_, but that's 
> another issue):
>
> 	#include <stdio.h>
>
> 	const char *int32_t(int i)
> 	{
> 		return i ? "non-zero" : "zero";
> 	}

Actually this is not allowed in POSIX.  _Any_ header may define any
identifier ending with "_t".

Andreas.

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