Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <40CEEE7C.8050405@aass.oru.se> Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 14:41:32 +0200 From: Martin Magnusson Organization: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=D6rebro_Universitet?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6+ (Windows/20040608) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Macros "major" and "minor" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-oru-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: martin DOT magnusson AT aass DOT oru DOT se X-IsSubscribed: yes I recently ran into problems when compiling a matrix library containing a function called "minor". Apparently, the file /usr/include/sys/sysmacros.h has the following definitions: #ifdef __CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__ #define major(dev) ((int)(((dev) >> 16) & 0xffff)) #define minor(dev) ((int)((dev) & 0xffff)) #define makedev(major, minor) (((major) << 16) | ((minor) & 0xffff)) #else #define major(dev) ((int)(((dev) >> 8) & 0xff)) #define minor(dev) ((int)((dev) & 0xff)) #define makedev(major, minor) (((major) << 8) | ((minor) & 0xff)) #endif Defining macros with names like "major" and "minor" is really not good, IMO. This should probably be changed, if possible. / martin -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/