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+/* atmapi.h - ATM API user space/kernel compatibility */
+ 
+/* Written 1999,2000 by Werner Almesberger, EPFL ICA */
+ 
+
+#ifndef _LINUX_ATMAPI_H
+#define _LINUX_ATMAPI_H
+
+#if defined(__sparc__) || defined(__ia64__)
+/* such alignment is not required on 32 bit sparcs, but we can't
+   figure that we are on a sparc64 while compiling user-space programs. */
+#define __ATM_API_ALIGN	__attribute__((aligned(8)))
+#else
+#define __ATM_API_ALIGN
+#endif
+
+
+/*
+ * Opaque type for kernel pointers. Note that _ is never accessed. We need
+ * the struct in order hide the array, so that we can make simple assignments
+ * instead of being forced to use memcpy. It also improves error reporting for
+ * code that still assumes that we're passing unsigned longs.
+ *
+ * Convention: NULL pointers are passed as a field of all zeroes.
+ */
+ 
+typedef struct { unsigned char _[8]; } __ATM_API_ALIGN atm_kptr_t;
+
+#endif