On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 05:51:36PM -0700, Gilbert, John wrote:
> The use of "new" as a variable name in the macro "__cmpxchg" breaks
> builds of other programs that link to include/asm-i386/system.h I'd
> like to request that this be renamed to something else, like mynew
> or krnew.
there are plenty of similar examples where tokens used are reserved
words in c++ --- it's quite a lot of invasive work to clean these up
properly for little or no apparent gain
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