Re: [XaraXtreme-dev] The _R macro and ctype.h

[Alex Bligh <alex@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

--On 29 March 2006 12:37 +0100 Ben Fowler <ben.the.mole@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Alternatively, using the model that wxWidgets employs in '#undef _T'
> at wxchar.h line 223, we
> could '#undef _R' at say, line 113 of stdwx.h .
>
> I am slightly surprised that Vasil Dimov from FreeBSD and Gerry Iles
> (Xara) haven't come
> across the same problem - or at least haven't commented on it, but it
> is just conceivable that this
> issue is Mac only.
>
> Even so, if there is a common sense approach to avoiding name clashes
> especially with the
> pre-processor, I would be very tempted to adopt it, even if the
> offered gain is small.

Oooerrr - I guess this is Mac only. I take responsibility for _R.
I am very surprised it didn't cause problems on existing
mac builds. It's probably possible to change it (being the cause
of the problem, I volunteer to fix it), but I'd like to get people's
views first. #undef'ing it before it is defined (i.e. in the
precompiled headers) would be a trivial fix. Nothing in Camelot
uses _R for any other purpose.

Alex