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Date:      Fri, 7 Jul 2000 11:26:02 -0500
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        Graham Wheeler <gram@cequrux.com>, Jim King <king@sstar.com>, Thomas David Rivers <rivers@dignus.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Any chance of changing struct member names in nameser.h?
Message-ID:  <20000707112602.A39538@bone.nectar.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000707075545.E25571@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Fri, Jul 07, 2000 at 07:55:46AM -0700
References:  <200007071320.JAA86645@lakes.dignus.com> <003d01bfe81e$553eb8a0$a44b8486@jking> <ecc3675e1a0a051fe49c35e7ada382b9@cequrux.com> <20000707075545.E25571@fw.wintelcom.net>

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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


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