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  1. Bug #94641
  2. Comment #3

Comment 3 for bug 94641

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Ben Collins (ben-collins) wrote : Re: [Bug 94641] Re: asm/bitops.h not included in linux-libc-dev

On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 03:43 +0000, Shaya Potter wrote:
> you're right that a program that depends on it is in some ways non
> standard and non portable beyond Linux, but why should I have to
> reinvent the wheel in regards to things like bit operations, when the
> linux kernel includes useful functionality for my own programs?

Functionality that is subject to change between kernel versions and
between distributions.

Further more, better to take this up with upstream kernel. The
linux-libc-dev package is created using "make headers_install" from the
kernel tree. So the headers produced are the ones they want exported.
It's not my decision.

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