On 03/12/2012 05:09 AM, Nicolas Boullis wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2012 at 11:09:35PM -0400, Rocky Bernstein wrote:
>> A patch was recently submitted: https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?35745
>>
>> Any comments on this?
>
> I had no idea that identifiers that begin with _[_A-Z] were reserved,
> but if they really are, I think it is sane to replace them, at least for
> macros use as "header guards", which, I guess, nobody uses outside the
> header files themselves.
> As for the patch itself, it adds a 32-character random-like suffix to
> all identifiers. I think this is really ugly, and I can see no good
> reason for this...
I agree with the comment that this is ugly. Also, somebody might have
code that looks something like this, not that it cannot be changed:
#ifndef __CDIO_H__
struct msf_s {
uint8_t m;
uint8_t s;
uint8_t f;
};
#endif // __CDIO_H__
Rob
