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To: Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>
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Subject: Re: 2.2.18 asm-alpha/system.h has a problem
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  [Peter Samuelson]
> > You are changing perfectly legal C.

[Andrea Arcangeli]
> You're right that's not kernel issue and patch can be rejected, but
> he's not really changing anything :). If changing that helps then
> it's a compiler bug.

Not a compiler bug, a source bug of assuming a C header file can be
included by a C++ program.  The right solution, as always, is to make a
copy of the header (assuming you really do need it) and edit the copy
as necessary.  This is a simple variation on the #ifdef __KERNEL__
issue.

Peter
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