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Re: [PATCH] Use __unused.0 instead of __unused for user visible struct members
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Justin Cormack <justin at specialbusservice dot com>
- Cc: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>, "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 17:16:51 -0500
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use __unused.0 instead of __unused for user visible struct members
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On 11/21/2013 04:59 PM, Justin Cormack wrote:
> Apologies, I meant to respond before, will do these ASAP.
No worries.
>>> 2. Update https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/Style_and_Conventions
>>> and add an entry on this to explain that we use __glibc_reserved
>>> for unused structure entries and that this is done to avoid
>>> __unused which causes problems with BSD sources.
I've done this just now as we've checked in a patch to fix __block
for similar reasons.
Cheers,
Carlos.