Subj : Re: c include problem
To   : comp.programming
From : Scott Moore
Date : Fri Oct 07 2005 12:33 pm

Uwe Mayer wrote On 10/06/05 11:26,:
> Hi,
> 
> I've got a problem with the C programming language. I need to include two
> header files which define constants with identical name. 
> This results in a compilation error:
> 
> /home/merkosh/src/Smartspace/Development/Infrastructure/sources/sflib/sflib.h:73:
> error: `sf_error' redeclared as different kind of symbol
> /usr/include/sndfile.h:344: error: previous declaration of `sf_error'
> 
> How do you handle this in C?
> 
> Thanks,
> Uwe

Because C namespace is essentially flat, with all global names visible from
anywhere else, the common workround is to "coin" names, such as

"bark_myconst"

For the include file bark.h.

I see that you are actually doing that with "sf_". Seems like the second declaration
in sndfile.h should have been coined as "sn_" or "snd_".

Luck.

.