From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Jul 7 10:16:24 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2C3437C043 for ; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 10:16:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e67HG1M18318; Fri, 7 Jul 2000 10:16:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2000 10:16:01 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , 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: <20000707101601.N25571@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <200007071320.JAA86645@lakes.dignus.com> <003d01bfe81e$553eb8a0$a44b8486@jking> <20000707075545.E25571@fw.wintelcom.net> <20000707112602.A39538@bone.nectar.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <20000707112602.A39538@bone.nectar.com>; from n@nectar.com on Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 11:26:02AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jacques A. Vidrine [000707 09:26] wrote: > 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. I'm doing a buildworld right now under 3.x to test, I should have it committed asap. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message