From: Schneelocke <schneelocke@gmail.com>
To: Rob Prowel <tempest766@yahoo.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: please remove reserved word "new" from kernel headers
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 17:35:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d4dc44d50507060835369099ea@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050706092657.95280.qmail@web60012.mail.yahoo.com>
On 06/07/05, Rob Prowel <tempest766@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 2.4 and 2.6 kernel headers use c++ reserved word "new"
> as identifier in function prototypes.
> [...]
> While not an error, per se, it is kind of sloppy and
> it is amazing that it hasn't shown up before now.
> using the identifier "new" in kernel headers that are
> visible to applications programs is a bad idea.
This has been discussed before: see
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111637766131104&w=2 and
the ensuing thread.
--
schnee
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-06 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-06 9:26 PROBLEM: please remove reserved word "new" from kernel headers Rob Prowel
2005-07-06 12:56 ` Jurriaan on adsl-gate
2005-07-06 12:58 ` Jesper Juhl
2005-07-06 13:06 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2005-07-06 18:08 ` Richard B. Johnson
2005-07-06 13:14 ` David Woodhouse
2005-07-06 14:05 ` Jakob Oestergaard
2005-07-06 14:43 ` Michal Schmidt
2005-07-06 15:35 ` Schneelocke [this message]
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