Re: SoupInputStream / trying out gio

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 12:56 +0100, Mathias Hasselmann wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, den 05.12.2007, 11:17 +0100 schrieb Mathieu Lacage:
> > On Wed, 2007-12-05 at 09:28 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 15:59 -0500, Morten Welinder wrote:
> > > > > I added an extra check for ->write != NULL in the splice case (because
> > > > > write() already did that) and commited.
> > > > 
> > > > I would be to avoid having struct members called write.  That is a reserved
> > > > symbol and if the C library decides to use a macro you will have some very
> > > > interesting effects.
> > > 
> > > Oh, yeah. Maybe we should rename it to something like _write? 
> > > 
> > > What other symbols can be macros like this? close? read?
> > 
> > Pretty much everything, yes. I doubt it makes any sense to try to
> > protect yourself from such stupidity.
> 
> Specially as you can use #undef in your C code, when stuck with a
> platform doing such stupidities...

Thats fine inside glib, but if you export these symbols in public
headers you're forcing all applications to do said #undef:s.

And such stupid platforms include linux and glibc. Only recently samba
had to change a structure member name from close to close_fn due to
this, and I had to handle the fallout in gnome-vfs.