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Date:   Wed, 5 Sep 2018 13:42:58 -0400
From:   "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] UAPI: Check headers by compiling all together as C++
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On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 07:33:38PM +0200, Yann Droneaud wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Le mercredi 05 septembre 2018 ? 18:55 +0200, Greg KH a ?crit :
> > On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 04:54:27PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> > > 
> > > Here's a set of patches that inserts a step into the build process to make
> > > sure that the UAPI headers can all be built together with C++ (if the
> > > compiler being used supports C++).  All but the final patch perform fixups,
> > > including:
> > 
> > Wait, why do we care?  What has recently changed to start to directly
> > import kernel uapi files into C++ code?
> > 
> > And if userspace wants to do this, can't they do the C namespace trick
> > themselves when they do the import?  That must be how they are doing it
> > today, right?
> > 
> 
> They can't.
> 
> 
> Adding extern "C" { } doesn't magically make "class" a non keyword.
> Even if it was the case, writing C++ code using whatever->class would
> probably broke because class is a keyword in C++.

I think it's a bug in the language TBH.

> -- 
> Yann Droneaud
> OPTEYA
>