Re: [PATCH v2] speakup: remove usage of non-standard u_char

From: Samuel Thibault
Date: Thu Nov 17 2022 - 03:21:00 EST


Yureka Lilian, le jeu. 17 nov. 2022 01:12:44 +0100, a ecrit:
> This code is included in the build tools makemapdata and genmap, and it
> expects that libc exposes a definition of u_char. But u_char is not
> defined in either C or POSIX standards, and some systems don't have it.
> Namely this breaks the build on hosts using musl libc, because musl only
> exposes u_char if _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yureka Lilian <yuka@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Reviewed-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

thanks!

> ---
> Content is unchanged compared to v1, but hopefully the patch is not
> corrupted this time and I added a cc: stable
> ---
> drivers/accessibility/speakup/utils.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/accessibility/speakup/utils.h b/drivers/accessibility/speakup/utils.h
> index 4bf2ee8ac246..4ce9a12f7664 100644
> --- a/drivers/accessibility/speakup/utils.h
> +++ b/drivers/accessibility/speakup/utils.h
> @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ static inline int oops(const char *msg, const char *info)
>
> static inline struct st_key *hash_name(char *name)
> {
> - u_char *pn = (u_char *)name;
> + unsigned char *pn = (unsigned char *)name;
> int hash = 0;
>
> while (*pn) {
> --
> 2.38.1
>

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Samuel
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