Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262049AbVERBTv (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2005 21:19:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262045AbVERBTv (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2005 21:19:51 -0400 Received: from ylpvm43-ext.prodigy.net ([207.115.57.74]:12437 "EHLO ylpvm43.prodigy.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262049AbVERBTh (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 May 2005 21:19:37 -0400 X-ORBL: [63.205.185.30] Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 18:19:30 -0700 From: Chris Wedgwood To: "Gilbert, John" Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Illegal use of reserved word in system.h Message-ID: <20050518011930.GA30885@taniwha.stupidest.org> References: <2692A548B75777458914AC89297DD7DA08B0866D@bronze.dolby.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <2692A548B75777458914AC89297DD7DA08B0866D@bronze.dolby.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 707 Lines: 15 On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 05:51:36PM -0700, Gilbert, John wrote: > The use of "new" as a variable name in the macro "__cmpxchg" breaks > builds of other programs that link to include/asm-i386/system.h I'd > like to request that this be renamed to something else, like mynew > or krnew. there are plenty of similar examples where tokens used are reserved words in c++ --- it's quite a lot of invasive work to clean these up properly for little or no apparent gain - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/