[PATCH] don't name parameter "errno"

Dmitry V. Levin ldv at altlinux.org
Tue May 24 22:24:45 UTC 2011


On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 10:41:31PM +0200, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/errno.h.html
> says:
> 
> "The <errno.h> header shall provide a declaration or definition for
> errno. The symbol errno shall expand to a modifiable lvalue of type int.
> It is unspecified whether errno is a macro or an identifier declared
> with external linkage. If a macro definition is suppressed in order to
> access an actual object, or a program defines an identifier with the
> name errno, the behavior is undefined."
> 
> strace source does use identifier "errno" at a parameter of one
> function. I propose to rename it, so that we don't risk
> getting build breakage here on obscure platforms or libcs.

It certainly won't harm, OK with me.


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ldv
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