Re: standards/46223: reserved identifier violation

[Klaus Klein <kleink%kleink.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR standards/46223; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Klaus Klein <kleink%kleink.org@localhost>
To: Markus.Elfring%web.de@localhost
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: standards/46223: reserved identifier violation
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 18:09:22 +0200

 On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:20:04PM +0000, Markus Elfring wrote:
 > The following reply was made to PR standards/46223; it has been noted by 
 > GNATS.
 > 
 > From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring%web.de@localhost>
 > To: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
 > Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, Antoine Leca 
 > <antoine.leca.1%gmail.com@localhost>
 > Subject: Re: standards/46223: reserved identifier violation
 > Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2012 14:15:46 +0200
 > 
 >  > I don't understand the question.
 
 Let me note that I've been wondering about this as well.  It's
 rather hard to tell which problem you are attempting to solve, as
 far as NetBSD is concerned - hence some of the delay in responding.
 
 >  I guess that it can be reworded like the following:
 >  Do you know any affected identifiers in your source code repository which 
 > do not 
 >  belong to a conforming C/C++ implementation?
 
 Absolutely:
 
 >  Do source files like the following show any update candidates?
 >  
 > http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/bin/csh/pathnames.h?rev=1.8&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
 >  
 > http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/bin/ksh/sigact.h?rev=1.3&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
 >  
 > http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/bin/stty/extern.h?rev=1.12&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
 >  
 > http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/crypto/dist/ipsec-tools/src/libipsec/libpfkey.h?rev=1.19&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
 >  
 > http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/dist/pdisk/DoSCSICommand.h?rev=1.2&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
 >  
 > http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/usr.sbin/ypserv/common/ypdef.h?rev=1.5&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup
 
 Those files aren't part of the implementation.
 
 With regard to the organization of the source tree, please have a
 look at hier(7).  Installing the OS, or at the very least extracting
 the comp set, should provide you with an impression more useful
 than looking at identifiers defined in seemingly arbitrarily chosen
 header files from the source tree.
 
 Also, while problem reports helping with the improvement of NetBSD
 are appreciated very much, please note that non-bug discussion
 would be more appropriate on tech-userlevel or tech-toolchain,
 rather than an obscure category of the bug database.
 
 
 Regards
 - Klaus