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Date:      Sun, 20 Oct 2002 12:55:57 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Mike Barcroft <mike@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Conflicting declarations for ffs() 
Message-ID:  <20021020195557.972FD2A88D@canning.wemm.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021020094608.F81582@espresso.q9media.com> 

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Mike Barcroft wrote:

> Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes:
> > Take a look at:
> > 
> > http://bento.freebsd.org/errorlogs/5-full/cqcam-0.91_1.log
> > 
> > This port includes headers that declare the ffs() function twice: once
> > with an inline version and once with a prototype.
> > 
> > Is the bug in the application, or the headers?
> 
> It looks like a bug in our headers.  I don't see why this is a new bug
> though.  It looks like <string.h> (which <strings.h> used to include)
> and i386's <machine/cpufunc.h> have been defining conflicting ffs()
> prototypes since at least 1999.

machine/cpufunc.h is really meant to be a kernel header and isn't really
meant for consumption by userland.  However, it is sortof useful.

In this particular case, gcc provides a respectable builtin for ffs().  We
probably shouldn't be overriding it for userland with our own inline for
userland.

Maybe it would just be better to stick a #ifdef _KERNEL around the inline
version?  That should leave gcc to use the builtin and fall back to the
libc version if -fno-builtin is used [or if non-gcc is used].

Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com
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