[vlc-devel] [PATCH 00/27] Fix of reserved identifiers (cont.)

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le 2016-02-22 02:12, Filip Roséen a écrit :
>> 
>> https://mailman.videolan.org/pipermail/vlc-devel/2016-February/106154.html
>>
>> These patches all boil down to fixing issues where reserved 
>> identifiers are
>> used, making the codebase ill-formed according to the C (WG14) ISO 
>> Standard.
>>
>>   - http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg14/www/docs/n1124.pdf 
>> (section: 7.1.3/1)
>>   - 
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Reserved-Names.html
>>   - http://c-faq.com/decl/namespace.html

We should fix this, but I hope you don't depend on VLC ever being 
correct here...

Fixing all the identifiers violation is pretty much a lost fight 
because of:

1) POSIX requirements (notably but not only w.r.t. the _t suffix):
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/V2_chap02.html#tag_15_02_02

2) The C++ ODR rule.

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