On 5 November 2013 15:32, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > On 5 November 2013 15:27, Iyer, Balaji V wrote: >> In file included from /usr/include/sys/vt.h:1:0, >> from >> ../../../../trunk-gcc/libsanitizer/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_platform_limits_posix.cc:49: >> /usr/include/linux/vt.h:74:15: error: expected unqualified-id before ânewâ >> unsigned int new; /* New console (if changing) */ >> ^ > > 'new' is a keyword in C++, so your linux/vt.h header is not usable in C++ > files. > > This is not a problem in libsanitizer. Have you recently updated a > kernel-headers package on your machine?
With kernel 3.11.6 I see that field is called newev, so it looks as though newer kernels fix the problem. Maybe libsanitizer needs to do some ugly dance around that header: #define new renamed_new #include <sys/vt.h> #undef new
