The following comment has been added to this issue:
Author: Robert Buck
Created: Thu, 13 May 2004 10:36 AM
Body:
I can do that as well, if I can only find on Sun's site where they would take bug
reports on fdlibm, and convince them to make the change.
Since fdlibm has a greater install base (at least presently), it would make sense (at
least in my own mind) changing it in Xerces-C. Especially since this is actually
rather new code in Xerces-C. Whereas, the code in fdlibm is 11 years older than the
Xerces-C code. I'm not saying what Sun Microsystems did was all that brilliant - the
developers that wrote this ought to have known better than to use something as common
as UNKNOWN in a #define. That's just asking for trouble.
But alas, I still would like to request that either (or both) the following occur:
a. establish a prefix convention for enums, perhaps X_ for future code
b. change this particular enum to something other than "UNKNOWN" (please?)
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Key: XERCESC-1212
Summary: Xerces-C Conflicts with fdlibm: enum names too common
Type: Bug
Status: Unassigned
Priority: Major
Project: Xerces-C++
Components:
Utilities
Validating Parser (DTD)
Validating Parser (Schema) (Xerces 1.5 or up only)
Versions:
2.5.0
Assignee:
Reporter: Robert Buck
Created: Thu, 13 May 2004 8:46 AM
Updated: Thu, 13 May 2004 10:36 AM
Environment: ALL
Description:
For those developers that use the freely distributable math library, or fdlibm, a
conflict exists between the definition of UNKNOWN. Specifically, if you include fdlibm
headers prior to xerces-c headers, xerces-c user applications will not compile.
Choosing common names such as UNKNOWN is not helpful to those of us that link in many
third-party libraries, since the likelihood that a conflict will exist with such a
name is greatly increased. Please prefix the names with something that distinguishes
the enum value as being from Xerces-C. In the very least, set it as a standard
practice in future enum types to use more conspicuous names. It would be nice if you
changed these before these names get entrenched in C++ user code.
I do have a work-around, but it's rather ugly. I just raise this to your attention,
mostly to suggest the adoption of such a coding practice.
Thanks
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