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

[Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>]

On Saturday 29 September 2007, Metuki Sabhe wrote:
> On 9/29/07, Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > 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> ?
> >
> > 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
>
> Thank you for this. Can you please tell me which header file declare
> these uint8_t types ?

a grep of /usr/include/ or reading the POSIX standard would tell you the 
answer: stdint.h
-mike

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