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RE: /usr/include/asm/system.h


Claude Lamy wrote:

> I am running a Mandrake 8.1 linux distrinution with gcc 2.96.  In
> the file /usr/include/asm/system.h, the function __cmpxchg uses a
> parameter named new which is a reserved keyword in C++.  I can
> modify the header file for myself but it should be changed (if not
> already) for future releases.

Actually the system headers belong to the system C library and not GCC;
in this case, however, that file belongs to the linux kernel
(linux/include/asm-i386/system.h).

It still contains 'new' in the latest 2.4 and 2.5 kernel trees. You may
wish to report it to them instead.

I'm not well up enough on the C and C++ standards to know if this is
really a problem - there may be ways that it's supposed to compile
anyway, and it appears to have survived for some time.

Rup.


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