On Wed, Jul 24, 2019 at 11:11:00AM +0200, Martin Kaiser wrote: > Dear all, > > is it correct that the files under include/uapi/ can be included by a > user space application? Yes. > I just ran into an error where my application ended up including > include/uapi/linux/stddef.h (with a number of intermediate steps). That's odd, what did you ask to be included that caused that? > This fails because the kernel's stddef.h includes > include/linux/compiler_types.h and this file is internal to > the kernel. What kernel version did this happen for? > What is the correct way to solve this? Should I fix my include path to > make sure that my application picks the stddef.h in the compiler's > sysroot rather than the kernel's stddef.h? The system stddef.h should always be used "first". > Or should include/uapi/linux/stddef.h guard the kernel-internal parts > using #ifdef __KERNEL__? There should no longer be any need for that. thanks, greg k-h _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
