Re: including sparse headers in C++ code

[Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>]

On Sam, 2010-10-09 at 14:46 -0700, Christopher Li wrote: 
> On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 1:59 PM, Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote:
> > It seems reasonable to avoid the use of C++ keywords in Sparse *headers*
> > (though unnecessary in *source*).  Looks like this will primarily cause
> > pain due to "enum namespace" and the various places using it.  Seems
> > easy enough to change those all to "ns".  "new" mostly seems to get used
> > as a parameter name or local variable name; for the former we could omit
> > it, and for the latter we could trivially call it something more
> > specific like "newlist" or "newptr".
> >
> > So, I'd tend to guess "patches welcome" (again, for headers only, plus
> > minimal corresponding source changes when required).  I wouldn't
> > anticipate other Sparse developers objecting strongly, but if they do
> > your mail seems like the right way to find out.  The various reasons
> > given for *not* making the Linux kernel headers compatible don't seem to
> > apply here, though.
> 
> Well said. I don't expect sparse to compile in the C++ mode. Making
> sparse header usable in C++ seems reasonable to me.

Well, sparse uses C99.
If one #include's <stdbool.h> at some day (as I did;-), than "true" and
"false" don't work any longer that good as variable names.
Are (trivial) patches to simply rename them appreciated?

Bernd
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