Re: conflict in public header for values definitions

[Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com>]

On 03/01/14 18:38, Igor Kozhukhov wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I'm working on port xen-4.2 to illumos based platform - DilOS - and have problems with conflicts for:
>
> xen/include/public/trace.h :
>
> struct t_buf {}
> struct t_info {}
>
> I have a questions - can we rename structures to:
> struct t_buf_xen {}
> struct t_info_xen {}
>
> Will it be applicable for Xen sources ?

You would break the compilation for every other user of trace.h, so no.

If it conflicts with something locally, you could do something like:
(completely untested)

#define t_buf t_buf_xen
#include <public/trace.h>
#undef t_buf

And use t_buf_xen in your own code.

~Andrew