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Date:      Thu, 31 Dec 1998 08:43:00 -0800 (PST)
From:      "Brian W. Buchanan" <brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
To:        Alex Zepeda <garbanzo@hooked.net>
Cc:        current <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: egcs chokes on netinet/in.h..
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812310837360.325-100000@smarter.than.nu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9812310146490.42452-100000@zippy.dyn.ml.org>

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On Thu, 31 Dec 1998, Alex Zepeda wrote:

> /usr/include/netinet/in.h:291: ANSI C++ forbids data member `ip_opts' with
> same name as enclosing class
> 
> In upgrading my egcs (to get around some rather annoying bugs), this seems
> to have been changed from a warning to a fatal error.  Is there any
> possibility that the ip_opts member could be named _ip_opts or somesuch?
> 
> struct ip_opts {
>         struct  in_addr ip_dst;         /* first hop, 0 w/o src rt */
>         char    ip_opts[40];           /* actually variable in size */
> };

This seems like a rather stupid restriction of ANSI C++, and in any case,
the compiler shouldn't treat it as a fatal error unless you specified
-ansi -pedantic.  To fix this without hacking the compiler to fix the
bug, perhaps try wrapping the include directive:

extern "C" {
#include <netinet/in.h>
}

-- 
Brian Buchanan                                   brian@smarter.than.nu
                                                 brian@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
                -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759


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