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From: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
To: "Gilbert, John" <JGG@dolby.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Illegal use of reserved word in system.h
Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 20:57:30 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1116377850.2909.0.camel@mindpipe> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2692A548B75777458914AC89297DD7DA08B0866D@bronze.dolby.net>

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 17:51 -0700, Gilbert, John wrote:
> Hello,
> 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.

The kernel is written in C.  "new" is not reserved in C.  Userspace
programs should not include kernel headers anyway.

Lee


  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-18  0:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-18  0:51 Gilbert, John
2005-05-18  0:57 ` Lee Revell [this message]
2005-05-18  1:19 ` Chris Wedgwood
2005-05-18  2:51 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-05-18  4:12   ` Willy Tarreau
2005-05-18 10:06   ` Patrick McFarland
2005-05-18 10:49     ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
2005-05-18 11:12     ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-18 21:52       ` Matan Peled
2005-05-19 11:03         ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-18 18:23 Gilbert, John
2005-05-18 19:02 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-05-18 19:32 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-19  1:06 ` rdunlap
2005-05-18 19:07 Gilbert, John
2005-05-18 19:53 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-05-19  2:22   ` Kyle Moffett
2005-05-19 11:28     ` Adrian Bunk
2005-05-19 12:19       ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-19 12:27         ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-05-19 12:47           ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-05-19 13:01             ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-19 13:47               ` Steven Rostedt
2005-05-19 14:06               ` Andreas Schwab
2005-05-19 14:15                 ` Steven Rostedt
2005-05-19 14:36                   ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-19 15:19                     ` Andreas Schwab
2005-05-19 15:56                       ` Steven Rostedt
2005-05-19 16:03                         ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-19 15:58                       ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-19 16:22                         ` Steven Rostedt
2005-05-19 17:06                           ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-05-19 17:36                             ` Steven Rostedt
2005-05-19 14:43                   ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-05-19 14:59                     ` Steven Rostedt
2005-05-20 12:23                       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-05-19 14:53                   ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-05-19 14:58                     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-05-19 15:06                       ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-05-19 13:56           ` Steven Rostedt
2005-05-19 17:30           ` Ben Greear
2005-05-19 17:36             ` Chris Friesen
2005-05-19 17:40               ` Ben Greear
2005-05-19 22:14                 ` Andreas Schwab
2005-05-19 22:30                   ` J.A. Magallon
2005-05-19 22:41                     ` Russell King
2005-05-19 23:10                       ` J.A. Magallon
2005-05-20  0:01                         ` Jeff Woods
2005-05-20  9:27             ` Helge Hafting
2005-05-20 16:47               ` Lee Revell
2005-05-20 16:56                 ` Ben Greear
2005-05-18 23:42 ` Andi Kleen
2005-05-18 23:59   ` Adrian Bunk
2005-05-18 21:31 Gilbert, John
2005-05-19 17:37 ` Alan Cox
2005-05-20 11:49   ` Dave Airlie
2005-05-20 16:42     ` Alan Cox
2005-05-19  1:51 Gilbert, John
2005-05-19 20:18 Gilbert, John
2005-05-20 17:30 Gilbert, John

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