From: George Dunlap <george.dunlap@citrix.com>
To: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>,
Xen-devel <xen-devel@lists.xen.org>
Cc: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>,
Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>,
George Dunlap <George.Dunlap@eu.citrix.com>,
Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>, Tim Deegan <tim@xen.org>,
Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] xen/build: Allow the use of C freestanding headers
Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2016 12:46:13 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cbbe2ac2-23df-88e3-377f-38c286bc0303@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1466594653-28241-2-git-send-email-andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>
On 22/06/16 12:24, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> The C standard defines two types of conforming implementation; hosted and
> freestanding. A subset of the standard headers are the freestanding headers,
> requiring no library support at all to use, and therefore usable by Xen.
>
> Unfortunately, -nostdinc is an overly large switch, and there is no
> alternative to only permit inclusion of the freestanding headers. Removing it
> is unfortunate, as we lose the protection it offers, but anyone who does try
> to use other parts of the standard library will still fail to link.
As long as there's no chance that random library functions will find
their way into the Xen code, I think this series is OK.
-George
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-22 11:24 [PATCH 0/6] xen/build: Use system headers Andrew Cooper
2016-06-22 11:24 ` [PATCH 1/6] xen/build: Allow the use of C freestanding headers Andrew Cooper
2016-06-22 11:46 ` George Dunlap [this message]
2016-06-22 13:12 ` Tim Deegan
2016-07-13 13:46 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-07-13 15:17 ` Tim Deegan
2016-08-01 9:50 ` Jan Beulich
2016-08-01 9:52 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-22 11:24 ` [PATCH 2/6] xen/build: Use the system stdarg.h header Andrew Cooper
2016-06-22 12:31 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-22 11:24 ` [PATCH 3/6] xen/build: Use the system stdint.h header Andrew Cooper
2016-06-22 11:24 ` [PATCH 4/6] xen/build: Use the system limits.h header Andrew Cooper
2016-06-22 11:24 ` [PATCH 5/6] xen/build: Use the system stddef.h and inttypes.h headers Andrew Cooper
2016-06-22 11:24 ` [PATCH 6/6] xen/build: Use the system stdbool.h header Andrew Cooper
2016-06-22 12:43 ` Jan Beulich
2016-06-22 13:02 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-06-22 12:26 ` [PATCH 0/6] xen/build: Use system headers Jan Beulich
2016-06-22 12:33 ` Andrew Cooper
2016-06-22 12:50 ` Jan Beulich
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