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Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead dot org>
- Cc: Matthew Wilcox <matthew at wil dot cx>, dhowells <dhowells at redhat dot com>, torvalds at osdl dot org, hch at infradead dot org, linux-kernel at vger dot kernel dot org, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: 26 Nov 2004 09:42:53 -0200
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__
- Organization: Red Hat Global Engineering Services Compiler Team
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On Nov 25, 2004, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> wrote:
> There's no _real_ need to keep them. All we need to fix is a handful of
> libc implementations; anything else using them was broken anyway.
It's not as simple as *fixing* them. They'd have to go through a
transition period in which they support both formats, which probably
implies a mess of ifdefs or, worse, macro expansion in #include
directives.
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