Re: [PATCH] 2.4.21-rc1: byteorder.h breaks with __STRICT_ANSI__defined (trivial)

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Thu Nov 06 2003 - 18:42:44 EST


Followup to: <20031106143110.6231ecde.davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
By author: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxx>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On 6 Nov 2003 12:40:55 -0800
> "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Note that "long long" (the underlying type) is valid
> > standards-compliant C99. gcc can handle it when in C89 mode if
> > defined as __extension__ long long IIRC.
>
> That's correct and I've suggested this.
>
> But keep in mind that people with non-GCC compilers will then
> start complaining.
>

So...

#ifdef __GNUC__
# define __gcc_extension __extension__
#else
# define __gcc_extension
#endif

typedef __gcc_extension signed long long s32;
typedef __gcc_extension unsigned long long u32;

-hpa


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