RE: Illegal use of reserved word in system.h

[Gilbert, John]

Hi Adrian,
This looks like the source of some stupidity.
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=555

Which is even more fun when you see this.
http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=10364

I think it's been in there a while, but only really blows up when built
under recent kernels.
I agree, it's probably not the right way to go.
John G.

-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Bunk [mailto:bunk@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 18, 2005 12:02 PM
To: Gilbert, John
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Illegal use of reserved word in system.h

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:23:33AM -0700, Gilbert, John wrote:

> Hello all,

Hi John,

>...
> Examples: The use of "new" in the macro __cmpxchg in system.h. This 
>hits  MySQL which links into the kernel headers to determine if the 
>platform  is SMP aware or not (don't ask me why.) ...

I haven't ever seen MySQL doing something that stupid (stupid because if
it's required, it _really_ has to be done at runtime).

Which version of MySQL have you seen such an SMP check in?

> John Gilbert

cu
Adrian

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