Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:02:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:02:24 -0500 Received: from lightning.swansea.linux.org.uk ([194.168.151.1]:30530 "EHLO the-village.bc.nu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 30 Oct 2000 09:02:07 -0500 Subject: Re: Need info on the use of certain datastructures and the first C++ keyword patch for 2.2.17 To: kaos@ocs.com.au (Keith Owens) Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 14:02:38 +0000 (GMT) Cc: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox), linux_developer@hotmail.com (Linux Kernel Developer), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4572.972914218@ocs3.ocs-net> from "Keith Owens" at Oct 31, 2000 12:56:58 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: From: Alan Cox Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > As part of the 2.5 kbuild redesign, symbol versions will be completely > redone. One of the things on my todo list is to detect this mismatch. > There are some problems in doing that which I may or may not be able to > overcome, but if the field names are different between C and C++ then I > can never detect this mismatch correctly. The symbol generation code never sees the C++ names, never will and never can. I still don't see any problem. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/