Re: [Bugme-new] [Bug 7724] New: asm/types.h should define __u64 ifisoc99

[David Miller]

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:49:54 -0800

> >            Summary: asm/types.h should define __u64 if isoc99

Platform specific bug, and has nothing to do with networking.

This problem will occur with any user visible interface definition
that uses __u64, and there are several both in and outside the
networking.

x86 and perhaps others protect the __u64 definition with:

	defined(__GNUC__) && !defined(__STRICT_ANSI__)

for whatever reason, probably to avoid "long long" or something like
that.  But even that theory makes no sense.

I do not make this protection on any of the sparc ports, even 32-bit
sparc, for example, so I find it really strange that x86 does this.
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