Re: ptrdiff_t in the kernel

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

dyoung%pobox.com@localhost (David Young) writes:

>I would prefer for this to suffice both for the kernel and userland:

>       #include <stdbool.h>    /* for bool */
>       #include <stddef.h>  /* for size_t */

I bet that most places would need something like:
 
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <stddef.h> 
#if defined(_KERNEL) || defined(_STANDALONE)
#include <sys/types.h>
#endif
 
because the kernel needs a lot more types than provided by the
standard C environment.

If you want to make kernel code use standard C headers, and I think
that's a good idea, then you have to attack a lot more code.
Providing only stdbool.h and stddef.h in the kernel doesn't help,
it just makes things ... different.