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rust: fix size_t in bindgen prototypes of C builtins
Without `-fno-builtin`, for functions like memcpy/memmove (and many others), bindgen seems to be using the clang-provided prototype. This prototype is ABI-wise compatible, but the issue is that it does not have the same information as the source code w.r.t. typedefs. For example, bindgen generates the following: extern "C" { pub fn strlen(s: *const core::ffi::c_char) -> core::ffi::c_ulong; } note that the return type is `c_ulong` (i.e. unsigned long), despite the size_t-is-usize behavior (this is default, and we have not opted out from it using --no-size_t-is-usize). Similarly, memchr's size argument should be of type `__kernel_size_t`, but bindgen generates `c_ulong` directly. We want to ensure any `size_t` is translated to Rust `usize` so that we can avoid having them be different type on 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, and hence would require a lot of excessive type casts when calling FFI functions. I found that this bindgen behavior (which probably is caused by libclang) can be disabled by `-fno-builtin`. Using the flag for compiled code can result in less optimisation because compiler cannot assume about their properties anymore, but this should not affect bindgen. [ Trevor asked: "I wonder how reliable this behavior is. Maybe bindgen could do a better job controlling this, is there an open issue?". Gary replied: ..."apparently this is indeed the suggested approach in rust-lang/rust-bindgen#1770". - Miguel ] Signed-off-by: Gary Guo <[email protected]> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/[email protected] [ Formatted comment. - Miguel ] Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda <[email protected]>
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bindgen_c_flags_lto = $(bindgen_c_flags)
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endif
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bindgen_c_flags_final = $(bindgen_c_flags_lto) -D__BINDGEN__
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# `-fno-builtin` is passed to avoid `bindgen` from using `clang` builtin
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# prototypes for functions like `memcpy` -- if this flag is not passed,
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# `bindgen`-generated prototypes use `c_ulong` or `c_uint` depending on
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# architecture instead of generating `usize`.
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bindgen_c_flags_final = $(bindgen_c_flags_lto) -fno-builtin -D__BINDGEN__
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quiet_cmd_bindgen = BINDGEN $@
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cmd_bindgen = \

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