On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 02:25:25PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:

* Thomas Weißschuh:

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If you call the data member sa_data just like glibc, it will only fail
in C++, not C.  GCC considers the two definitions sufficiently
equivalent (even though glibc adds a may_alias attribute to meet POSIX
requirements), and duplicate definitions are permitted in C.

clang is not so lenient and will error out.

It seems it accepts it if you switch to C23 mode.

The currently supported baseline for UAPI headers is C90.
We can't really force userspace to switch here.


Thomas