Jan Engelhardt wrote:
On Thursday 2009-02-26 00:51, arnd@xxxxxxxx wrote:
Netfilter traditionally uses BSD integer types in its
interface headers. This changes it to use the Linux
strict integer types, like everyone else.
I _strongly disagree_ with this move. Userspace also has the uintX
types via <stdint.h>/<cstdint>, and now you are adding a dependency
on linux/types.h, not to mention that your step can lead to compile
time piling up.
IMHO, __uXX should be replaced by uintX_t, but a move this great I
will leave to future generations because there is just too much
persisting opinions wrt. such proposal. As such I'd like to join
and persist on my position and that uintX that we have should be kept.
- u_int8_t flags;
- u_int8_t mask;
+ __u8 flags;
+ __u8 mask;
Not to mention the fact that the standard type is uint8_t, not u_int8_t
as the file currently have, which makes it double broken.
-hpa
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