Am 13.12.2013 um 22:00 hat Eric Blake geschrieben:
> On 12/13/2013 01:49 PM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > Am 13.12.2013 um 18:10 hat Max Reitz geschrieben:
> >> Introduce an alias "error" for "errno", since using the latter for QMP
> >> is sure to result in various syntax errors due to the name being used
> >> directly as an identifier.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Max Reitz <mre...@redhat.com>
> > 
> > I can't say I like this, but it seems we don't have an option.
> 
> Don't we already have a way to use QMP keys that collide with C keywords
> (for example, "unix" in qapi's SocketAddress becomes "q_unix" in C)?
> Why can't we reuse that mechanism, and just add "errno" to the polluted
> words list so that the generated C code uses "q_errno" rather than
> having to invent an "error" alias?

Oh, I didn't know that this exists. Sounds better then, because it makes
the external interfaces uniform, even though internally we'd still have
aliases (errno/q_errno instead of errno/error then).

Kevin

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