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authorZack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>2016-05-10 11:07:42 -0400
committerZack Weinberg <zackw@panix.com>2016-08-03 15:28:49 -0400
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Deprecate inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h>
The macros defined by <sys/sysmacros.h> are not part of POSIX nor XSI, and their names frequently collide with user code; see for instance glibc bug 19239 and Red Hat bug 130601. <stdlib.h> includes <sys/types.h> under _GNU_SOURCE, and C++ code presently cannot avoid being compiled under _GNU_SOURCE, exacerbating the problem. * NEWS: Inclusion of <sys/sysmacros.h> by <sys/types.h> is deprecated. * misc/sys/sysmacros.h: If __SYSMACROS_DEPRECATED_INCLUSION is defined, define major, minor, and makedev to issue deprecation warnings on use. If __SYSMACROS_DEPRECATED_INCLUSION is *not* defined, suppress previously-activated deprecation warnings for these macros and prevent subsequent inclusions of this header from having any effect. * posix/sys/types.h: Define __SYSMACROS_DEPRECATED_INCLUSION before including <sys/sysmacros.h>, and undefine it again afterward.
Diffstat (limited to 'posix/sys')
-rw-r--r--posix/sys/types.h8
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/posix/sys/types.h b/posix/sys/types.h
index a7285671bf..83dadcdd05 100644
--- a/posix/sys/types.h
+++ b/posix/sys/types.h
@@ -218,8 +218,14 @@ typedef int register_t __attribute__ ((__mode__ (__word__)));
/* It also defines `fd_set' and the FD_* macros for `select'. */
# include <sys/select.h>
-/* BSD defines these symbols, so we follow. */
+/* BSD defines `major', `minor', and `makedev' in this header.
+ However, these symbols are likely to collide with user code, so we are
+ going to stop defining them here in an upcoming release. Code that needs
+ these macros should include <sys/sysmacros.h> directly. Code that does
+ not need these macros should #undef them after including this header. */
+# define __SYSMACROS_DEPRECATED_INCLUSION
# include <sys/sysmacros.h>
+# undef __SYSMACROS_DEPRECATED_INCLUSION
#endif /* Use misc. */