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Greg Kroah-Hartman 5d392794b2 Linux 6.12.60
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251127144032.705323598@linuxfoundation.org
Tested-by: Pavel Machek (CIP) <pavel@denx.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20251127150346.125775439@linuxfoundation.org
Tested-by: Brett A C Sheffield <bacs@librecast.net>
Tested-by: Peter Schneider <pschneider1968@googlemail.com>
Tested-by: Linux Kernel Functional Testing <lkft@linaro.org>
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Tested-by: Ron Economos <re@w6rz.net>
Tested-by: Salvatore Bonaccorso <carnil@debian.org>
Tested-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Tested-by: Florian Fainelli <florian.fainelli@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2025-12-01 11:43:41 +01:00

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// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
//! Foreign function interface (FFI) types.
//!
//! This crate provides mapping from C primitive types to Rust ones.
//!
//! The Rust [`core`] crate provides [`core::ffi`], which maps integer types to the platform default
//! C ABI. The kernel does not use [`core::ffi`], so it can customise the mapping that deviates from
//! the platform default.
#![no_std]
macro_rules! alias {
($($name:ident = $ty:ty;)*) => {$(
#[allow(non_camel_case_types, missing_docs)]
pub type $name = $ty;
// Check size compatibility with `core`.
const _: () = assert!(
core::mem::size_of::<$name>() == core::mem::size_of::<core::ffi::$name>()
);
)*}
}
alias! {
// `core::ffi::c_char` is either `i8` or `u8` depending on architecture. In the kernel, we use
// `-funsigned-char` so it's always mapped to `u8`.
c_char = u8;
c_schar = i8;
c_uchar = u8;
c_short = i16;
c_ushort = u16;
c_int = i32;
c_uint = u32;
// In the kernel, `intptr_t` is defined to be `long` in all platforms, so we can map the type to
// `isize`.
c_long = isize;
c_ulong = usize;
c_longlong = i64;
c_ulonglong = u64;
}
pub use core::ffi::c_void;