Re: [ECOS] Namespace pollution

[Andrew Lunn <andrew dot lunn at ascom dot ch>]

[Puts on "Knows nothing about C++" hat]

Isn't it the compiler thats broken? key and destructor are for us
humans. All the compiler needs is pthread_key_t * and void (*) (void
*). The compile should take destructor as a comment and not a symbol.

    Andrew

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 07:23:04AM -0700, Gary D. Thomas wrote:
> Jonathan,
> 
> I've run into a problem [near and dear to your heart] - a place where 
> the eCos namespace (via include files) intrudes on an application.  The 
> problem is in <pthread.h>.  This particular application happens to have 
> a typedef for the symbol "destructor", which causes this prototype to 
> fail:
> 
> // Create a key to identify a location in the thread specific data area.
> // Each thread has its own distinct thread-specific data area but all are
> // addressed by the same keys. The destructor function is called whenever a
> // thread exits and the value associated with the key is non-NULL.
> externC int pthread_key_create (pthread_key_t *key,
>                                 void (*destructor) (void *));
> 
> So, the question(s) are:
>  * Who's at fault here?  (the application or the kernel)
>  * How best to solve it?
> 
> As a work-around, I've modified that particular include file 
> to avoid this problem (renaming destructor as _destructor).  
> 
> n.b. This is a portable application from outside the eCos world,
> so I don't want to have to change it, if possible.  If, on the
> other hand, this is truly an application issue, I'll gladly take
> it up with the [application] maintainers.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> (Yes, I know I'm responsible for a number of similar issues.  What
> I'm interested in here is how we should fix them :-)
> 
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