Re: Illegal use of reserved word in system.h

[Lee Revell]

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 17:51 -0700, Gilbert, John wrote:
> 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.

The kernel is written in C.  "new" is not reserved in C.  Userspace
programs should not include kernel headers anyway.

Lee

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