Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: Need info on the use of certain datastructures and the first C++ keyword patch for 2.2.17 | Date | Mon, 30 Oct 2000 13:04:06 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> js_dev::new. My questions are basically this. If I update these data > structure members' names along with the references to them in various C > files in the kernel will all be happy in Linuxland. Can any external
That may well be a problem. Also the use of private.
> utilities be broken or anything like that. Or more precisely are there any > known external utilities that would be broken by this change? Thanks to all > those whom can give me a hand in this.
You may find that creating your own wrappers for these files that do
extern "C" { #define new new_ #define private private_ #include <linux/foo.h> #undef new #undef private }
safer, since you won't break anything
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