Re: namespace safety with attributes

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>]

On Jul 31 10:07, Eric Blake wrote:
> As pointed out here:
> https://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2014-07/msg00371.html
> 
> any use of __attribute__ in a header that can be included by a user
> should be namespace-safe, by decorating the attribute arguments with __
> (while gcc does a lousy job at documenting it, ALL attributes have a __
> counterpart, precisely so that public headers can use attributes without
> risk of collision with macros belonging to user namespace).
> 
> 2014-07-31  Eric Blake  <...>
> 
> 	* include/pthread.h: Decorate attribute names with __, for
> 	namespace safety.
> 	* include/cygwin/core_dump.h: Likewise.
> 	* include/cygwin/cygwin_dll.h: Likewise.
> 	* include/sys/cygwin.h: Likewise.
> 	* include/sys/strace.h: Likewise.

Thanks, please apply.


Corinna

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