Re: unhappy with current.h

From: Andi Kleen (ak@muc.de)
Date: Mon Oct 14 2002 - 15:45:30 EST


Daniele Lugli <genlogic@inrete.it> writes:

> *** one of my data structures has a field named 'current'. ***
>
> Pretty common word, isn't it? Would you think it can cause such a
> trouble? But in some of my files I happen to indirectly include
> <asm/current.h> (kernel 2.4.18 for i386), containing the following line:
>
> #define current get_current()

How about changing the definition to:

#define current ((struct task_struct *)get_current())

That should get the same effect as currently for kernel code, but
will guarantee a syntax error if it's used in a structure declaration.

-Andi
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