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Re: PATCH: More stdbool tweaking
Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> writes:
> > I think I need a bucket ... :-) You'll need to explictly include
> >> "config.h" as well. Is it possible to fix bfd.h? If this is
> >> hurting GDB it is going to hurt a lot more :-(
> > It is not possible to fix bfd.h until we purge bool from that header
> > entirely. It's a gross namespace issue. I'll look at that, but only
> > post-2.12.0 release.
>
>
> So I would strongly encourage fixing the problem before the
> branch/release. If the problem is messing up GDB now is going to mess
> up a lot more tools once it is made official in a release.
>
> GDB's managed to survive changes far less mechanical than this one :-)
The use of bool is not a problem, since bfd.h doesn't use bool. It
uses boolean, which nobody appears to be complaining about.
The only bfd.h issue is the definitions of true and false. Daniel has
proposed a simple patch which works provided stdbool.h is included first. I
already proposed a simple patch which should work in all cases:
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/binutils/2002-02/msg00068.html
However, I have not tested it.
Ian