[Spread-users] Patch to fix defect in spread 3.17.1

[Piotr Kozieradzki]

Steven Dake wrote:

>Folks,
>
>I have been using spread 3.17.1 for a few days testing it out and
>playing with it.  Excellent job developers!
>
>I did notice one problem with the sp.h header file.  In my application I
>am extremely unlucky and use both mailbox and service as a variable
>name.  When the C preprocessor processes the C code, it replaces these
>variable names with "int" because they are #define'ed to int by sp.h.  
>
>I have attached a patch which replaces the define's with typedefs, which
>are a little more application friendly.
>
>Thanks
>-steve
>  
>
Sorry, I think that your patch could make some problem with strong type 
checker compiler. Some times I would like to use "mailbox" as clean 
'int' type.
Piotr Kozieradzki

>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>--- spread-src-3.17.1/sp.h	2002-09-27 10:08:46.000000000 -0700
>+++ spread-src-3.17.1-bugfix/sp.h	2003-12-29 23:26:33.000000000 -0700
>@@ -126,8 +126,8 @@
> #define         GROUPS_TOO_SHORT        -16
> #define         MESSAGE_TOO_LONG        -17
> 
>-#define		mailbox			int
>-#define		service			int
>+typedef		int			mailbox;
>+typedef		int			service;
> 
> #define		MAX_CLIENT_SCATTER_ELEMENTS	100
> 
>  
>