[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/1] net/mlx4: fix build on PPC64

David Christensen drc at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Wed Aug 14 01:49:31 CEST 2019


On 8/13/19 4:28 AM, Christian Ehrhardt wrote:
> The AltiVec header file breaks boolean type:
> 
> error: incompatible types when initializing type
> '__vector _bool int' {aka '_vector(4) __bool int'} using type 'int'
> 
> If __APPLE_ALTIVEC__ is defined, then bool type is redefined
> and conflicts with stdbool.h.
> 
> There is no good solution to fix it for the whole project without
> breaking something else, so a workaround is inserted in mlx5 PMD.
> This workaround is not compatible with C++ but there is no C++ in DPDK.
> 
> Related to:
> https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=725f5dd0bfb50192a2d2341d4cc69084c2c4e03d
> 
> Change-Id: Iceb058c07086def4176c5ab199ca4dd5018d0340
> Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>

Tested-by: David Christensen <drc at linux.vnet.ibm.com>


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