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Re: cpplib: s/ALIGN/_ALIGN
- To: Neil Booth <neil at daikokuya dot demon dot co dot uk>
- Subject: Re: cpplib: s/ALIGN/_ALIGN
- From: Alexandre Oliva <aoliva at redhat dot com>
- Date: 03 Feb 2001 16:11:42 -0200
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Organization: GCC Team, Red Hat
- References: <20010203174848.C6712@daikokuya.demon.co.uk>
On Feb 3, 2001, Neil Booth <neil@daikokuya.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> OpenBSD and I believe FreeBSD define a macro ALIGN in param.h.
Well, they shouldn't. It's not in their implementation namespace.
> Unfortunately, it was also a macro used by cpplib.
Using _ALIGN is even worse, because _ALIGN is in the implementation
namespace. The probabiliby of encountering a macro called _ALIGN is
greater than that of finding one called ALIGN.
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