[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] near is a special keyword

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 10:34:30AM -1000, Steve Lhomme wrote:
> Rich Felker wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 08:01:34AM -1000, Steve Lhomme wrote:
> >>M?ns Rullg?rd wrote:
> >>>Steve Lhomme <steve.lhomme at free.fr> writes:
> >>>
> >>>>Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> >>>>>Hi
> >>>>>On Tue, Feb 28, 2006 at 03:42:26PM -1000, Steve Lhomme wrote:
> >>>>>>...on some windows compilers (far vs near pointers). So I renamed
> >>>>>>items called "near".
> >>>>>#define near smallandstinkingsoft_not_knowing_c_standard
> >>>>This is exactly like renaming onenear to
> >>>>smallandstinkingsoft_not_knowing_c_standard. Which I already do.
> >>>No it's not.
> >>Yes it is.
> >
> >No it's not. You are changing the code. Michael said to add a #define
> >to the platform-specific crap for your Windows build to work around
> >the bug in MSVC.
> >
> >>>>I just thought you might want the fix.
> >>>The fix should go where the bug is, i.e. in the compiler.  If they
> >>>needed a new keyword they should have used __near.
> >>Too bad, that keyword existed before Linux was even started.
> >
> >Stupid fucking windows kids. The keyword has NEVER existed and will
> >never exist (most likely anyway) in the C language. It exists in
> >broken Microsoft bastardizations of the C++ language which are adapted
> >to also compile a limited subset of C code, sometimes incorrectly.
> >
> >FYI gcc existed long before MSVC.
> >
> >Rich
> 
> Dick, your reputation is safe.
> 

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