John Levon wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 03:34:08AM +0200, Roland Mainz wrote:
> > > > > http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/uts/intel/sys/regset.h#100
> > > > > is broken. The two-letter defines there causes lots of breakage and 
> > > > > IMO
> > > > > a violation of things which I would call "namespace clean" and 
> > > > > portable
> > > >
> > > > Unfortunately, these are defined by the i386 ABI supplement.  I agree
> > > > that it's bad practice, but we're probably stuck with them.
> > >
> > > I have a half-done webrev that avoids defining them via the usual route 
> > > they
> > > turn up (sys/signal.h), after getting annoyed at having to "fix" #define 
> > > ERR in
> > > so many applications, but never got around to finishing it.
> >
> > Do you have any bugs.opensolaris.org bugid for this change ? We're
> 
> 6400595 x86 register defines unnecessarily pollute global namespace

Thanks! :-)

> (This doesn't imply anything about it getting fixed, though: I certainly don't
> have time right now...)

;-((((

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Bye,
Roland

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