On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 03:17:24AM -0800, Maxime Henrion wrote:
> Juli Mallett wrote:
> > * De: Maxime Henrion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [ Data: 2002-11-05 ]
> >     [ Subjecte: Re: uuid.h is not C++ safe ]
> > > Maxime Henrion wrote:
> > > > Patrick Hartling wrote:
> > > > > I was just about to put the new DCE 1.1 UUID functions into use in some 
> > > > > C++ code, but linking fails because the function prototypes in uuid.h 
> > > > > are not protected with the __cplusplus/extern "C" bits.  It's easy 
> > > > > enough for me to fix my local copy, but I'm sure this same thing could 
> > > > > trip up other people.
> > > > 
> > > > This should be fixed with the attached patch.  Marcel, can you review
> > > > and commit it please ?
> > 
> > Oops, I probably should have pinged Marcel about this, now that I think
> > about it, but anyway, it shouldn't change anything.  Even with vanilla
> > cpp(1) both produce the right thing, with or without __cplusplus defined,
> > and both produce the identical thing (moins linenos/whitespace) in the
> > C case.
> > 
> > Of course, both <uuid.h> and <sys/uuid.h> needed changed, as both
> > define protos, and <sys/uuid.h> is included into <uuid.h>.
> 
> That's arguably bad, sys/uuid.h shouldn't have any !_KERNEL prototypes
> in it.

If there's a better place, then we should move it. We could put it in
<uuid.h>, but I don't want to make that header a requirement if one
only uses the syscall. I don't yet know what a good place would be,
if not <sys/uuid.h>. Suggestions?

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 Marcel Moolenaar         USPA: A-39004          [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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