Mail Archives: cygwin/1998/12/14/18:34:10
Hello,
I´ve been using Beta 20.1 with the included gcc,
to get GNU's cvs 1.10 up and running on WinNT 4.0 + ServicePack.
That worked fairly out of the box, with one exception:
One source code (file rcs.c) has an
enum {ADD, DELETE}
that does not compile.
Why not? In file
cygwin-b20/H-i586-cygwin32/i586-cygwin32/include/Windows32/defines.h,
there is a
#define DELETE
that breaks the code.
(I could fix this by renaming the "DELETE" in the rcs.c - file to something
different).
My suggestions:
As far as I know, the C/C++ standards both suggest that names
belonging to the compiler environment
either start with a single, or contain two "_" character(s).
Application programmers know to avoid such names.
If you have a Microsoft-ish reason that forces you to pollute the global
namespace
with other names, I suggest you warn your users that you do so,
through a note in the FAQ.
You might even consider adding a switch, to use standard-conforming names
only
(for people like myself, that want to compile software that knows little or
nothing
about Microsoft).
Unfortunately, I do not have the time to follow the discussion in this
mailing list.
I still hope these remarks have been helpfull.
andreas DOT krueger AT mlc DOT de
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