Thread (4 messages) 4 messages, 4 authors, 2021-05-05

Re: [RFC v2] bpf.2: Use standard types and attributes

From: Florian Weimer <hidden>
Date: 2021-05-04 19:45:28
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* Alejandro Colomar:
The thing is, in all of those threads, the only reasons to avoid
<stdint.h> types in the kernel (at least, the only explicitly
mentioned ones) are (a bit simplified, but this is the general idea of
those threads):

* Possibly breaking something in such a big automated change.
* Namespace collision with userspace (the C standard allows defining
  uint32_t for nefarious purposes as long as you don't include
 <stdint.h>.   POSIX prohibits that, though)
* Uglier
__u64 can't be formatted with %llu on all architectures.  That's not
true for uint64_t, where you have to use %lu on some architectures to
avoid compiler warnings (and technically undefined behavior).  There are
preprocessor macros to get the expected format specifiers, but they are
clunky.  I don't know if the problem applies to uint32_t.  It does
happen with size_t and ptrdiff_t on 32-bit targets (both vary between
int and long).

Thanks,
Florian
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