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From: warsaw@nlm.nih.gov (Barry A. Warsaw)
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Subject: XView: bogus function prototypes in <xview/defaults.h>
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Date: 1 May 91 21:38:16 GMT
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May of the function prototypes in <xview/defaults.h> use the C++
reserved word "class" as an argument name.  This causes syntax errors
when using C++ and XView defaults.  Here's an example:

EXTERN_FUNCTION (char *	defaults_get_string, (char *name, char *class, char *default));
                                                                ^^^^^

The simple work around is to *not* include <xview/defaults.h> but
instead supply your own EXTERN_FUNCTION macro without argument names.
Eg:

EXTERN_FUNCTION(char* defaults_get_string, (char*, char*, char*));

Sun, please fix this for the next release.  Thank you.

-Barry

NAME:  Barry A. Warsaw         INET: warsaw@nlm.nih.gov
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