[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] eal: fix build issue

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Tue Nov 6 13:29:19 CET 2018


06/11/2018 12:45, Jerin Jacob:
> Some toolchain has fls() definition in string.h as argument type int,
> which is conflicting uint32_t argument type.
> 
> /export/dpdk.org/lib/librte_eal/common/rte_reciprocal.c:47:19:
> error: conflicting types for ‘fls’
>  static inline int fls(uint32_t x)
>                   ^~~
> 
> /opt/marvell-tools-201/aarch64-marvell-elf/include/strings.h:59:6:
> note: previous declaration of ‘fls’ was here
>  int  fls(int) __pure2;
> 
> FreeBSD string.h also has fls() with argument as int type.
> https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=fls&sektion=3
> 
> Fixing the conflict by renaming internal function as __fls

Why not rte_fls? Would it be more future proof?




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