ext2_types.h in package e2fslibs-dev is whacked

[Sylvain Defresne]

Le samedi 07 janvier 2006 à 01:29 -0500, Phillip Susi a écrit :
> I just found this header because I'm trying to get the defrag package to 
> compile from source on amd64, and this thing is insane.  First off, it 
> seems to duplicate definitions of basic data types that are already 
> defined in asm/types.h, but it does so wrongly.  Take a look at this:
> 
> #if (4 == 2)
> typedef    int        __s16;
> typedef    unsigned int    __u16;
> #else
> 
> WTF?  How many drugs over what period of time would you have to consume 
> for 4 to equal 2?
> 
> Where did this craziness come from and can we please nuke it?

If you look at the build process of this package, you'll see that it is
indeed an auto-generated file, and the 4 is coming from the detected
size of the int type at configuration time. And indeed, sizeof(int) == 2
on some platform (this is valid by the C99 standard). I will guess it is
used to define platform independent type with known size.

BTW, the ext2_types.h.in files read as:

        #if (@SIZEOF_INT@ == 4)
        typedef int          __s16;
        typedef unsigned int __u16;
        #else

However, I don't think this is the right list to discuss this.
Bye,
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Sylvain Defresne                                 <sdefresne at gmail.com>
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