Comment 9 for bug 1109298

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Takashi Iwai (tiwai) wrote : Re: [PATCH] alsa-lib: Add sys/types.h to include list

At Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:16:13 +0100,
David Henningsson wrote:
>
> On 02/12/2013 10:10 AM, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > At Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:06:11 +0100,
> > David Henningsson wrote:
> >>
> >> This is needed by snd_pcm_format_silence* functions which
> >> return u_int*_t. It was discovered while trying to compile ALSA
> >> programs with eglibc 2.17.
> >>
> >> Credits to Richard Shaw, Gary Buhrmaster, Matthieu Baerts and
> >> Adam Conrad for this fix.
> >>
> >> BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1109298
> >> BugLink: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=885306
> >> Signed-off-by: David Henningsson <email address hidden>
> >
> > For u_int_* types, wouldn't it better to include stdint.h?
>
> Hmm, it looks like stdint.h declares uint_* whereas sys/types.h declares
> u_int_* (notice the _ between "u" and "int"). Do you think we should
> change snd_pcm_format_silence* from u_int to uint?

Ah, OK, then sys/types.h is the right inclusion.

Maybe conversion to uint_*_t would be more universal, but I don't
think it's worth, as these types are used in many places in the public
API already.

I'll take your patch as is now.

thanks,

Takashi