Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 15:12:51 +0200 From: Graham Wheeler <gram@cequrux.com> To: Jim King <king@sstar.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Any chance of changing struct member names in nameser.h? Message-ID: <3ab0baefb12d7472b9def36580f56874@cequrux.com> References: <24c7bf729bd71b904dba8ca2d38e3205@cequrux.com> <18a82ff8d91179d356d8037283bdd5d8@cequrux.com> <00ce01bfe810$36da2510$08e48486@marble>
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Jim King wrote:
>
> Graham Wheeler wrote:
>
> > Graham Wheeler wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all
> > >
> > > I send a similar request to the KAME group a while back but got no
> > > response.
> > >
> > > Recent versions of BIND have changed the name of one of the structure
> > > members in nameser.h to be "class".
> >
> > Actually, I was wronng - the nameser.h in contrib/bind is fine. But the
> > one in include/arpa/nameser.h is not, so this *is* specific to
> > FreeBSD/KAME...
>
> imho, the right way to handle this is in your source, using an 'extern "C"'
> directive to tell the compiler that it's including a C header and not a C++
> header. e.g.
>
> extern "C" {
> #include <header_with_cpp_bogons.h>
> }
>
> If the #include directive is in another header file that might be used in
> both C and C++ programs you'd probably want to put some '#ifdef __cplusplus'
> around the extern's. See section 9.2.4 in Stroustrup 3rd edition for a good
> example.
Great idea, except I thought of that long ago and it doesn't work.
gram
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