Re: Illegal use of reserved word in system.h

[Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>]

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 11:23:33AM -0700, Gilbert, John wrote:

> Hello all,

Hi John,

>...
> Examples: The use of "new" in the macro __cmpxchg in system.h. This hits
> MySQL which links into the kernel headers to determine if the platform
> is SMP aware or not (don't ask me why.) 
>...

I haven't ever seen MySQL doing something that stupid (stupid because 
if it's required, it _really_ has to be done at runtime).

Which version of MySQL have you seen such an SMP check in?

> John Gilbert

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Adrian

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