On 16 April 2007 20:49, Charles Wilson wrote:
> Or <shudder>, should libjava avoid the reserved name '_EXFUN' for its
> macro, and use some other macro for this purpose?
The definition of _EXFUN in mprec.h is unconditionally:
#define _EXFUN(name, proto) name proto
This looks like some slightly muddle-headed approach to make libjava
backwardly-compatible with K'n'R, which is ... less than necessary AFAICS. I
don't know whether that mprec.h is an entirely internal header, or whether
it's an external library header that real-world apps might be #including and
using the _EXFUN definition from, but I would have guessed we can make do
without it altogether.
How about we whip up a patch to just turn all the _EXFUN definitions into
real honest-to-goodness ansi prototypes? Is it actually serving any real
purpose?
cheers,
DaveK
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