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* check idea: include sparse as a library in C++
@ 2021-06-22  6:45 Ke Du
  2021-07-26 18:28 ` Luc Van Oostenryck
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Ke Du @ 2021-06-22  6:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-sparse; +Cc: Xiao Jia

Hi,

I want to include sparse as a library in C++ and access fields of the 
structs such as symbol and expression directly, but some of the 
variables in sparse are keywords in C++ so they cannot be included in 
C++ directly. I have several fixes below that are not ideal, and any 
feedback is appreciated.

1. Append an underscore to C++ keywords, for instance change new to 
new_. The change only involves the code that I included so there might 
be some C++ keywords in sparse that are unchanged.

2. Replace every keyword with a macro:

     #ifdef __cplusplus
     #define NEW new_
     #else
     #define NEW new
     #endif

Similar to solution 1, this is not complete, and both 1 and 2 involves 
about 200 changes already.

3. When including sparse header files, guard them with

     #define new new_
     #include ...
     #define new_ new

This does not involve change to sparse but it imposes weird restriction 
to the ordering of other C++ libraries that I do not understand at all.

I can send the patches if one of the fixes is acceptable. Alternatively, 
if there is a better way, please let me know.

Cheers,
-- Ke

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2021-06-22  6:45 check idea: include sparse as a library in C++ Ke Du
2021-07-26 18:28 ` Luc Van Oostenryck
2021-08-13  1:25   ` [PATCH 0/2] fixes for using sparse as a C++ library Ke Du
2021-08-13  1:25     ` [PATCH 1/2] expose more functions to C++ in header files Ke Du
2021-11-17  9:44       ` Xiao Jia
2021-08-13  1:25     ` [PATCH 2/2] make implicit type conversion explicit Ke Du

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