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Re: PATCH: More stdbool tweaking
On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 01:19:17PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >Sorry for taking so long to get to this.
> >
> >Including <stdbool.h> where it is available seems to cause more problems
> >than it solves. Basically, some versions of <curses.h> drag in <stdbool.h>
> >which conflicts with BFD's bool; others conflict with <stdbool.h>. The
> >only
> >way I found to get this right was to require consumers of "bfd.h" to
> >include
> ><curses.h> beforehand. I'll do the patch to GDB to make this happen
> >separately.
>
>
> If you mean adding a #include <curses.h> to GDB's "defs.h" before the
> #inlcude "bfd.h" then that won't work. <curses.h> is ledgendary for its
> name space pollution.
No, I have a patch in my working directory which changes those files
which already include <curses.h>: utils.c and tui/. They now pull it
in before bfd.h, and everything is happy.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer