[NUT-devel] [PATCH] add header dependencies to libnut.h

Clemens Ladisch cladisch at fastmail.net
Tue Jan 23 08:29:34 CET 2007


Rich Felker wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 07:27:14PM +0100, Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> > Luca Barbato wrote:
> > > Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> > > > Luca Barbato wrote:
> > > >> Clemens Ladisch wrote:
> > > >>> libnut.h uses types like size_t, uint64_t and off_t that are defined in
> > > >>> other headers.  This patch makes sure that these headers are included.
> > > >>
> > > >> sys/types.h ??
> > > > 
> > > > off_t
> > > 
> > > unistd.h maybe?
> > 
> > Why would you want to use this?  sys/types.h is just as portable (SUSv2) as
> > unistd.h but doesn't pull in all the other functions.
> 
> stdlib.h and stdint.h (or inttypes.h) will give all except off_t.
> It would be nice not to depend on posix headers, just C ones, but
> onfortunately C stupidly lacks off_t. I suppose sys/types.h is ok.

nutlib.h doesn't need any of the functions from stdlib.h, so using
stddef.h instead should be OK, too.


Regards,
Clemens



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