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Re: Ping Re: Fix more namespace issues in sys/ucontext.h (bug 21457)

From: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
To: Zack Weinberg <zackw at panix dot com>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
Date: Tue, 23 May 2017 11:53:10 +0000
Subject: Re: Ping Re: Fix more namespace issues in sys/ucontext.h (bug 21457)
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On Mon, 22 May 2017, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 7:32 AM, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> > Ping.  This patch
> > <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2017-05/msg00484.html> is pending
> > review.
> 
> So I'm OK with __ versions of NGREG, NFPREG, etc, but is it really
> necessary to mangle structure field names?  Is it just to defend
> against user definitions of those identifiers as preprocessor macros,

Yes.  These names (many of them very generic, such as "state" or 
"version") are not reserved as macro names.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com

References:
- Fix more namespace issues in sys/ucontext.h (bug 21457)
  - From: Joseph Myers
- Ping Re: Fix more namespace issues in sys/ucontext.h (bug 21457)
  - From: Joseph Myers
- Re: Ping Re: Fix more namespace issues in sys/ucontext.h (bug 21457)
  - From: Zack Weinberg

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