[RFH] _FORCENAMELESSUNION

[Francois Gouget]

On Sun, 22 Dec 2002, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:

> On December 22, 2002 06:03 am, Ove Kaaven wrote:
> > Perhaps you could investigate the mingw headers to see
> > if they've changed the #ifs around to get around this.
>
> This is how they do it:
>
> #ifdef NONAMELESSUNION
> #define __VARIANT_NAME_1 n1
> #define __VARIANT_NAME_2 n2
> #define __VARIANT_NAME_3 n3
> #define __VARIANT_NAME_4 n4
> #else
> #define __tagVARIANT
> #define __VARIANT_NAME_1
> #define __VARIANT_NAME_2
> #define __VARIANT_NAME_3
> #define __VARIANT_NAME_4
> #endif
>
> Maybe our way is the right way. But it seems like wxWindows expects
> nameless structures under all compilers, without defining
> _FORCENAMELESSUNION... I can just define it, it's not a big deal,
> just a small incompatibility.

Maybe you should submit patches to wxWindows and/or MinGW. I think this
could only improve these projects to be more compatible with the Windows
headers...


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