Re: [PATCH] Use __unused0 instead of __unused for user visiblestruct member names

[Sam Ravnborg]

On Mon, Jan 02, 2012 at 02:22:43PM -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
> (+cc: some possible relevant people)
> Hi,
> 
> Guillem Jover wrote:
> 
> > On BSD systems __unused has traditionally been defined to mean the
> > equivalent of gcc's __attribute__((__unused__)), some parts of the
> > Linux tree use that convention too (e.g. perf). The problem comes when
> > defining such macro while trying to build unmodified source code with
> > BSD origins on systems with Linux headers.
> >
> > Rename the user visible struct members from __unused to __unused0 to
> > not cause compilation failures due to that macro, which should not be
> > a problem as those members are supposed to be private anyway.

^__ is reserved for libc internal stuff and there is no reason to
name the unused/padding members "__unused".
So one or a set of patches that rename them all to something more
sensible would be fine.

	Sam
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