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Re: Macros "major" and "minor"
- From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 14:46:40 +0200
- Subject: Re: Macros "major" and "minor"
- References: <40CEEE7C.8050405@aass.oru.se>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Jun 15 14:41, Martin Magnusson wrote:
> I recently ran into problems when compiling a matrix library containing
> a function called "minor". Apparently, the file
> /usr/include/sys/sysmacros.h has the following definitions:
>
> #ifdef __CYGWIN_USE_BIG_TYPES__
> #define major(dev) ((int)(((dev) >> 16) & 0xffff))
> #define minor(dev) ((int)((dev) & 0xffff))
> #define makedev(major, minor) (((major) << 16) | ((minor) & 0xffff))
> #else
> #define major(dev) ((int)(((dev) >> 8) & 0xff))
> #define minor(dev) ((int)((dev) & 0xff))
> #define makedev(major, minor) (((major) << 8) | ((minor) & 0xff))
> #endif
>
> Defining macros with names like "major" and "minor" is really not good,
> IMO. This should probably be changed, if possible.
They are defined the same way on Linux or BSD. They are also pulled
in there simply by including sys/types.h or another include file which
in turn includes sys/types.h.
Corinna
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