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Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/arm/include/asm/types.h | 40 |
1 files changed, 40 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/arm/include/asm/types.h b/arch/arm/include/asm/types.h new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..a53cdb8f068c --- /dev/null +++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/types.h @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +#ifndef _ASM_TYPES_H +#define _ASM_TYPES_H + +#include <asm-generic/int-ll64.h> + +/* + * The C99 types uintXX_t that are usually defined in 'stdint.h' are not as + * unambiguous on ARM as you would expect. For the types below, there is a + * difference on ARM between GCC built for bare metal ARM, GCC built for glibc + * and the kernel itself, which results in build errors if you try to build with + * -ffreestanding and include 'stdint.h' (such as when you include 'arm_neon.h' + * in order to use NEON intrinsics) + * + * As the typedefs for these types in 'stdint.h' are based on builtin defines + * supplied by GCC, we can tweak these to align with the kernel's idea of those + * types, so 'linux/types.h' and 'stdint.h' can be safely included from the same + * source file (provided that -ffreestanding is used). + * + * int32_t uint32_t uintptr_t + * bare metal GCC long unsigned long unsigned int + * glibc GCC int unsigned int unsigned int + * kernel int unsigned int unsigned long + */ + +#ifdef __INT32_TYPE__ +#undef __INT32_TYPE__ +#define __INT32_TYPE__ int +#endif + +#ifdef __UINT32_TYPE__ +#undef __UINT32_TYPE__ +#define __UINT32_TYPE__ unsigned int +#endif + +#ifdef __UINTPTR_TYPE__ +#undef __UINTPTR_TYPE__ +#define __UINTPTR_TYPE__ unsigned long +#endif + +#endif /* _ASM_TYPES_H */ |