On Sun, 24 Sept 2023 at 09:58, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
>
> Most of those in uapi/ are likely unnecessary: extern "C" means
> "don't mangle", but kernel doesn't export functions to userspace
> except vDSO so there is nothing to mangle in the first place.
I suspect a lot of it is "this got
On Sat, Sep 23, 2023 at 11:04:57AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Sept 2023 at 20:49, Kees Cook wrote:
> >
> > 2) __cplusplus is relatively common in UAPI headers already:
> >$ git grep __cplusplus -- include/uapi | wc -l
> >58
>
> Look a bit closer.
>
> Most of those - by
On Fri, 22 Sept 2023 at 20:49, Kees Cook wrote:
>
> 2) __cplusplus is relatively common in UAPI headers already:
>$ git grep __cplusplus -- include/uapi | wc -l
>58
Look a bit closer.
Most of those - by far - is for the usual
#if defined(__cplusplus)
extern "C" {
#endif
pattern.
On Fri, Sep 22, 2023 at 04:55:45PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Sept 2023 at 09:59, Kees Cook wrote:
> >
> > - Fix UAPI stddef.h to avoid C++-ism (Alexey Dobriyan)
>
> Ugh. Did we really have to make two different versions of that define?
>
> Ok, so C++ did something stupid wrt an
