[Crash-utility] Extension modules in C++

[Adrien Kunysz]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Petr Tesarik <ptesarik at suse.cz> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> as part of SUSE HackWeek8, David started work on a GUI extension using Qt4,
> which is a C++ project. One of the early annoyances is that an extension
> module must include the declarations from defs.h, and we currently use some C
> identifiers which happen to be keywords in C++, namely:
>
> - struct namespace
> - struct namespace namespace (in struct symbol_table_data)
> - char *typename (in struct gnu_request)
>
> Can I rename them? But you said earlier that the existing API must never
> change... Any other suggestions to make this include file parseable by a C++
> compiler?

One hack you could consider would be to do something like this:

extern "C" {
        #define namespace ns
        #include "defs.h"
        #undef namespace
}