[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix build on PPC64

[Thomas Monjalon]

07/11/2018 20:05, dwilder:
> On 2018-11-07 08:00, Thomas Monjalon 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.
> > 
> > Suggested-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
> > Suggested-by: Adrien Mazarguil <adrien.mazarguil at 6wind.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>
> 
> <cut ....>
> 
> Tested-by: David Wilder <dwilder at us.ibm.com>
> 
> Hi Thomas
> 
> Thanks for re-posting this patch.  I see no build breaks on power8 or 
> power9 with this patch.  I tried both 18.11-rc1 and upstream (master).

It is not really a re-post. I took the last solution which was
proposed for EAL, and applied it to mlx5 only.