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Subject: Re: [Xenomai] Qt - Xenomai compatibility problem
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To: 'Gilles Chanteperdrix' <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gilles Chanteperdrix [mailto:gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org]
> Sent: Friday, May 03, 2013 11:11 AM
> To: George Pontis
> Cc: xenomai@xenomai.org
> Subject: Re: [Xenomai] Qt - Xenomai compatibility problem
> 
> On 04/30/2013 10:50 PM, George Pontis wrote:
> 
> > I took a snapshot from git of the current Xenomai code and put it in the hands of the
> software
> > developers. They reported that Qt would not build after patching with Xenomai. The problem
> was that
> > Qt uses "signals" as a keyword, and that conflicts with the function prototype for
> rt_task_notify
> > under xenomai/native:
> >
> >
> > int rt_task_notify(RT_TASK *task, rt_sigset_t signals);
> >
> >
> > Although this is not a Xenomai problem, it might save some users the annoyance if the name
> "signals"
> > could change.
> 
> 
> Have you tried the obvious fix?
> 
> --
>                                                                 Gilles.


Yes, to us the obvious fix was to edit the function prototype in the include file
and change "signals" to "_signals".

George