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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [libnftnl PATCH] Rename xfree() to libnftnl_xfree() to avoid symbol naming conflict
Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2014 15:22:13 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140820132213.GA7106@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.11.1408201459330.23974@nerf08.vanv.qr>

On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 03:00:18PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Wednesday 2014-08-20 00:02, Pablo Neira Ayuso wrote:
> 
> >On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 03:39:49PM +0200, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> >> [...] the xfree() symbols of libnftnl
> >> becomes visible to the outside world, causing a conflict with the
> >> xfree() symbol defined by nftables.
> >> 
> >> To solve this, this patch renames the libnftnl xfree() function to
> >> libnftnl_xfree().
> >
> >Would this small patch solve your problem too?
> >
> >[non-inline attachment]
> 
> It would, but why add the redundant cast?

free() makes gcc spot a warning when called with const objects.

      reply	other threads:[~2014-08-20 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-16 13:39 [libnftnl PATCH] Rename xfree() to libnftnl_xfree() to avoid symbol naming conflict Thomas Petazzoni
2014-08-19 22:02 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
2014-08-20 12:07   ` Thomas Petazzoni
2014-08-20 13:00   ` Jan Engelhardt
2014-08-20 13:22     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]

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