Fwd: Re: Video4Linux header files (and unnamed unions)

[Hans Petter Selasky <hselasky@xxxxxxx>]

Hi,

Would you accept the following patch to the videodev2.h file, that all unnamed 
unions are appended "MY_UNION" or something like that?

--HPS

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On Saturday 19 May 2007, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 11:24:34PM +0200, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
> > On Saturday 19 May 2007 21:14, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > > - i don't know how problematic is this, but v4l2 headers seem to use
> > >   unnamed unions which, last time i tried, conflict with the compiler
> > >   setting used to build the kernel. While this is possibly an
> > > orthogonal problem which we may have to address at some point (as
> > > unnamed unions seem to be a common paradigm in linux headers), it is
> > > yet another hurdle.
> >
> > Unnamed unions are not so good. I suggest that we terminate unnamed
> > unions with an "u".

We can make this a compile time option:

#ifdef NOT_GCC_4X
#define MY_UNION u
#else
#define MY_UNION 
#endif

union {

} MY_UNION;

I see no problem about that. Else it will be a nightmare to port the code to 
other and especially older compilers.

>
> It is not our choice. Linux v4l2 headers use these unions,
> software is written against these headers, we can't change the
> names unless we want to make extensive changes to the sources.

We can be compatible with both!

--HPS

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