From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] symbol conflicts between netinet/in.h, arpa/inet.h, and rte_ip.h
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:43:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1432797.FfhxlLyX1P@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53D18EFF.8080804@fixup.fi>
Hi all,
2014-07-24 22:55, Antti Kantee:
> On 24/07/14 07:59, Matthew Hall wrote:
> > I ran into some weird symbol conflicts between system netinet/in.h and DPDK
> > rte_ip.h. They have a lot of duplicated definitions for stuff like IPPROTO_IP
> > and so on. This breaks when you want to use inet_pton from arpa/inet.h,
> > because it includes netinet/in.h to define struct in_addr.
[...]
> Again, I recommend steering away from any tightrope approaches that
> "know" which types are non-conflicting, or pick out half-and-half from
> the host and IP stack. "Do, or do not, there is no half-and-half"
The general problem here is that DPDK is conflicting with libc.
So the obvious question would be: "why DPDK needs to redefine libc stuff"?
I don't see any obvious answer since bare metal is planned to be removed.
(see http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2014-June/003868.html)
Objections?
--
Thomas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-25 10:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-24 7:59 Matthew Hall
2014-07-24 15:43 ` Niraj Sharma (nirajsha)
2014-07-24 22:55 ` Antti Kantee
2014-07-24 23:03 ` Matthew Hall
2014-07-25 1:12 ` Wu, Jingjing
2014-07-25 4:56 ` Matthew Hall
2014-07-25 10:33 ` Ananyev, Konstantin
2014-07-25 10:43 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2014-07-25 14:40 ` Antti Kantee
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