[RFC] msvcrt: defines break C++ code

[Francois Gouget]

On Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:

> Folks,
>
> We have a lot of code in msvcrt headers like so:
>
> #define umask _umask
> #define unlink _unlink
> #define write _write
[...]
> I suggest we turn those defines into inlines, like this:
>
> inline int write(int fd, const void* ptr, unsigned int size) { return _write(fd, ptr, size); }
>
> Any other solutions?

The strange thing is that the MSVC headers simply define their
prototype, e.g.:

_CRTIMP int __cdecl umask(int);

Yet these APIs are not exported by the msvcrt library or by any other
dll that I know of. And still applications compile and link!

In fact it seems that whether the application calls umask or _umask
(even once preprocessed), MSVC will import _umask.

Anyway, replacing these defines with inline functions is fine with me.


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