Re: Confusion over the definition of 'bool' in rdi-share/host.h

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 06:12:16PM +0000, Nick Clifton wrote:
> Hi Guys,
> 
>   The ARM port of GDB is currently failing to build for me because of
>   this problem:
> 
> In file included from /home/nickc/work/sources/egcs/gdb/rdi-share/ardi.h:17,
>                  from /home/nickc/work/sources/egcs/gdb/remote-rdi.c:46:
> /home/nickc/work/sources/egcs/gdb/rdi-share/host.h:123: conflicting types for `_Bool'
> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-redhat-linux/2.96/include/stdbool.h:41: previous declaration of `_Bool'
> 
>   It seems that host.h has code that looks like this (trimmed a little):
> 
>     #  define _bool int
> 
>     #ifdef _bool
>        typedef _bool bool;
>     #endif
> 
>   And stdbool.h has:
> 
>     typedef enum
>     {
>       false = 0,
>       true = 1
>     } _Bool;
> 
>     #define bool _Bool
> 
>   So the typedef in host.h becomes, effectively  "typedef int enum _Bool".
> 
>   I am not sure if we are allowed to modify rdi-share/host.h, it
>   appears to be copyright to ARM, but if we are, then may I submit the
>   following patch to undefine bool before it is used ?

(Ew on all counts)

Does not defining bool if it is already defined also work?

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