Messages in this thread | | | From | David Howells <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 03/11] UAPI: virtio_net: Fix use of C++ keywords as structural members | Date | Wed, 05 Sep 2018 18:15:03 +0100 |
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Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> Come on now, either put the whole C namespace stuff around the file,
You mean wrap it with 'extern "C" { ... }'? That doesn't fix it. That only affects the symbols generated by the compiler.
> "class" is a fine variable name for C code, there's no reason this has > to change here at all.
I'm trying to prevent future accidents like the one in linux/keyctl.h. The easiest way to do this[**] is to pass the entire set of UAPI headers[*] through the compiler together.
Besides I still have my dark plan to C++-ise the kernel[***] :-D
David
[*] with some obvious exceptions
[**] and it catches other errors too
[***] https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/4/1/116
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