On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 10:19 AM, Joseph S. Myers <jos...@codesourcery.com> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Oct 2011, David Edelsohn wrote: > >> Hey, Dodji, >> >> Your patch broke bootstrap on AIX because of the typedef "loc_t" >> introduced in tree-diagnostics.c. The typedef conflicts with a >> typedef in an AIX 5.3 header file for locales. AIX should not be >> using that namespace, but the failure occurs before fix-includes, so >> it is not possible to fix it there. > > The whole *_t namespace is reserved by POSIX, so it's not unreasonable for > AIX to have some AIX-specific *_t typedefs although it seems quite rare > for this to cause conflicts in practice (and AIX is obviously risking > conflicts with future POSIX revisions by using *_t for its own types).
any reason we could not call it location_type? or just location?
