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dataflow
on Nov 2, 2021
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Core scheduling lands in Linux 5.14
Thanks, yeah. Any idea why they still do this instead of switching to `uintptr_t`?
dxuh
on Nov 2, 2021
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Afaik the kernel is built as C89 and uintptr_t was introduced in C99.
dataflow
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Damn. I'd have they they could just typedef it manually, but interesting, thanks.
caf
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It's not even about how the kernel is built. The userspace-side system call declarations need to be #include-able in C89 user code, so they can't use C99 types.
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