Dear Mike Frysinger,
In message 200911161703.46965.vapier@gentoo.org you wrote:
Why would that be needed? Which problem are you trying to solve?
like the subject very briefly says, 'for types'. if your source code includes flash.h before anything else, it'll fail to compile as flash.h uses types not declared implicitly by the compiler.
I'm not sure if this is needed or even wanted.
We don't attempt to make all header files self-sufficient, or do we? Does Linux do this?
When looking at man pages for system calls and library funtions it seems this is not the case; also, I can find wise people argumenting against self-sufficient headers (and others argumenting in their favour).
My question: is there a definitive position somewhere (for example for the Linux kernel; I'm sure we don't have one for U-Boot [yet]), whether system headers should be self-sufficient?
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk