[U-Boot] [PATCH 20/21] Add inttypes.h

[Simon Glass]

Hi Masahiro,

On Wed, 5 Dec 2018 at 22:51, Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro at socionext.com> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 1:43 PM Simon Glass <sjg at chromium.org> wrote:
> >
> > Even if U-Boot does not use this, some libraries do. Add back this header
> > file so that the build does not fall back to using the host version, which
> > may include stdint.h and break the build due to conflicts with uint64_t,
> > etc.
>
>
>
> The root cause of the problem might be,
> those libraries mix up <linux/types.h> from U-Boot
> and <inttypes.h> from the compiler.
>
>
> Linux kernel has a different <linux/types.h> for user-space tools
> in tools/include/linux/types.h

Right, but how does it enforce those tools using that file? It is non-standard.

> I agree that U-Boot has been screwed up here
> to a hopeless level.

The problem is not U-Boot. If a library that links against U-Boot
includes stdint.h, it expects it to work.

Regards,
Simon