Re: [ft-devel] changing 'generic' variable name

[Graham Asher]

I built FreeType for CLR code for a .NET project too a couple of years 
ago, and found another thing, if I remember aright: when you compile 
pure CLR code you can't use setjmp/longjmp, so I had to replace uses of 
those functions with returning error codes.

Graham Asher


On 19/04/2013 07:44, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > I am using Freetype in a C++/CLI (.NET) project. 
> >
> > Several spots in include/freetype/freetype.h have an FT_Generic
> > variable in a struct with the name 'generic'.   This is a reserved
> > keyword apparently in this environment.  I patched it locally to
> > just be called ft_generic instead in order to fix build errors.
> This is the right way.
>
> > I know it's a niche issue but maybe you can change that to keep that
> > from happening to others out there.
> No chance.  I can't change the public API.  Maybe you can suggest a
> documentation patch so that C++/CLI users are warned?
>
>
>      Werner
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