From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 7 9:26:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (bwegner-host153.dsl.visi.com [208.42.49.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9148337C51F for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 09:26:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: from bone.nectar.com (bone.nectar.com [10.0.1.105]) by gw.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B57B9B35; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 11:26:10 -0500 (CDT) Received: by bone.nectar.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id E1C391DCD; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 11:26:02 -0500 (CDT) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 11:26:02 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Graham Wheeler , Jim King , Thomas David Rivers , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Any chance of changing struct member names in nameser.h? Message-ID: <20000707112602.A39538@bone.nectar.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , Alfred Perlstein , Graham Wheeler , Jim King , Thomas David Rivers , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <200007071320.JAA86645@lakes.dignus.com> <003d01bfe81e$553eb8a0$a44b8486@jking> <20000707075545.E25571@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000707075545.E25571@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 07:55:46AM -0700 X-Url: http://www.nectar.com/ Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 07:55:46AM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > Yes, I could do that - I have done that already for curses.h. But I > > still think it sucks badly that there is a variable named 'class', and I > > still think it should be changed. > > A really kludgy workaround would be to make a strictly C module for > handling that header, then link your C++ to it. > > I do agree that it sucks though. I wasn't watching this thread closely, so excuse me if I'm stating the obvious. BIND 8 calls the member `ns_class', not `class'. FreeBSD 4.x and later do the same. Revision 1.13 of src/arpa/nameser.h maybe should have been MFC'd to the 3.x branch almost a year ago. See PR 11670. -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message