07/11/2018 20:05, dwilder:
> On 2018-11-07 08:00, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> > The AltiVec header file breaks boolean type:
> >
> > error: incompatible types when initializing type
> > '__vector _bool int' {aka '_vector(4) __bool int'} using type 'int'
> >
> > If __APPLE_ALTIVEC__ is defined, then bool type is redefined
> > and conflicts with stdbool.h.
> >
> > There is no good solution to fix it for the whole project without
> > breaking something else, so a workaround is inserted in mlx5 PMD.
> > This workaround is not compatible with C++ but there is no C++ in DPDK.
> >
> > Suggested-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrha...@canonical.com>
> > Suggested-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarg...@6wind.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net>
>
> <cut ....>
>
> Tested-by: David Wilder <dwil...@us.ibm.com>
>
> Hi Thomas
>
> Thanks for re-posting this patch. I see no build breaks on power8 or
> power9 with this patch. I tried both 18.11-rc1 and upstream (master).
It is not really a re-post. I took the last solution which was
proposed for EAL, and applied it to mlx5 only.
