[PATCH 2/2] wayland-util: Rename ARRAY_LENGTH -> __WL_ARRAY_LENGTH

Chad Versace chad.versace at linux.intel.com
Thu Oct 18 12:45:26 PDT 2012


On 10/18/2012 12:35 PM, Chad Versace wrote:
> On 10/18/2012 10:23 AM, Pekka Paalanen wrote:
>> On Thu, 18 Oct 2012 09:15:08 -0700
>> Chad Versace <chad.versace at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>>
>>> wayland-util.h defined an unprefixed macro, ARRAY_LENGTH, which polluted
>>> the global namespace. This caused symbol collisions in projects that
>>> defined ARRAY_LENGTH slightly differently.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Chad Versace <chad.versace at linux.intel.com>
>>
>> Hi Chad,
>>
>> do you have the weston patches to go with these?
>> I think Weston code heavily uses both the macros you replaced.
> 
> No, I wasn't aware that the macros were used outside Wayland. The
> Weston patches coming soon.

Hmm... I think the ARRAY_LENGTH needs to be revised. Since
wayland-util.h:ARRAY_LENGTH is used outside of Wayland, I think it should be
renamed to WL_ARRAY_LENGTH rather than __WL_ARRAY_LENGTH because
double-underscore symbols are typically private.

Opinions?



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