Re: unhappy with current.h

[Richard B. Johnson]

On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Olivier Galibert wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 04:33:50PM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote:
> > > #define current get_current()
> 
> > This cannot be the reason for your problem. The name of a structure
> > member has no connection whatsoever with the name of any function or
> > definition.
> 
> You forgot the effect of the parenthesis.  This isn't a name-changing
> macro, this is a variable-to-function-call changing macro.
> 
>   OG.
> 

Yep. But if the originator can not tried to compile kernel headers
with g++, an appropriate diagnostic would have been caught as shown.

Cheers,
Dick Johnson
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