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Re: [PATCH] Fix up bswap_* types
On Thu, 23 Aug 2012, Marek Polacek wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 01:12:24PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > They are wrong to include <endian.h>, which declares public symbols.
> > They should use only <bits/endian.h> instead. This means all the various
> > bits/endian.h files need their #ifndef _ENDIAN_H sanity checks adjusted.
>
> In that case I think I could in {w,}ctype.h before including
> <bits/endian.h> define say `__need_byteorder' and then tweak guards
> in all the bits/endian.h so that they look like
Personally I find the __need_* scheme pretty fragile, and it's also been
reported as causing problems for such things as attempts at pre-parsed
headers in GCC - it's generally nicer if a header does something
well-defined that doesn't depend on whether such a macro is defined before
including it.
Thus, whenever you are tempted to give a header a special __need_*
interface, I'd rather split out the relevant bits into a new internal
(bits/*) header and include that header in both places.
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