From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262054AbVGFT6N (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2005 15:58:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262087AbVGFT4Q (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2005 15:56:16 -0400 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.198]:56620 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262131AbVGFPft convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jul 2005 11:35:49 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=QKwMM9B3nsxJXPZGqc7usNG3AaEIq8iN4uVj3cOi/mnLMlSgTJUzX5mM3bojTG8zatc3i34nKjw09eNU/7eRQZhHRDf8wpLk3E6/dn1gAp12C9jdxx51Ulw/d3faV3UwQI5H8B7R3cdJCMHfFZYqiapkagx7Tah35hkhnw+KW5M= Message-ID: Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2005 17:35:48 +0200 From: Schneelocke Reply-To: Schneelocke To: Rob Prowel Subject: Re: PROBLEM: please remove reserved word "new" from kernel headers Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20050706092657.95280.qmail@web60012.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline References: <20050706092657.95280.qmail@web60012.mail.yahoo.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 06/07/05, Rob Prowel 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