Illegal use of reserved word in system.h

From: Gilbert, John
Date: Tue May 17 2005 - 19:53:37 EST


Hello,
The use of "new" as a variable name in the macro "__cmpxchg" breaks
builds of other programs that link to include/asm-i386/system.h
I'd like to request that this be renamed to something else, like mynew
or krnew.
Thanks.
John Gilbert
jgg@xxxxxxxxx

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