Re: [Crash-utility] Extension modules in C++

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Petr Tesarik <ptesarik(a)suse.cz&gt; wrote: > Hi all, > > as part of SUSE HackWeek8, David started work on a GUI extension using > Qt4, which is a C++ project. One of the early annoyances is that an > extension module must include the declarations from defs.h, and we > currently use some C identifiers which happen to be keywords in C++, > namely: > > - struct namespace > - struct namespace namespace (in struct symbol_table_data) > - char *typename (in struct gnu_request) > > Can I rename them? But you said earlier that the existing API must never > change... Any other suggestions to make this include file parseable by a > C++ compiler? One hack you could consider would be to do something like this: extern "C" { #define namespace ns #include "defs.h" #undef namespace }