[ruby-core:24091] [Bug #1705] Ruby macros on windows

Bug #1705: Ruby macros on windows
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/1705

Author: Vit Ondruch
Status: Open, Priority: Normal
ruby -v: 1.8.5 - 1.9.1

Hello,

win32.h header of Ruby 1.8.5 - 1.9.1 contains a lot of macros such as:

#ifdef bind
#undef bind
#endif
#define bind(s, a, l)		rb_w32_bind(s, a, l)

#ifdef connect
#undef connect
#endif
#define connect(s, a, l)	rb_w32_connect(s, a, l)

#define close(h)		rb_w32_close(h)

I believe that this is dangerous practice. Such names are quite common method or variable names and once you include Ruby.h in your project, it can result in unpredictable results. There was already one thread opened about this issue: http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/176026#new unfortunately it did not bring any attention.

Could you please suggest any workaround or better consider another way of define these macros or the best use some prefix, since it seems that the methods are ruby specific anyway.

Thank you

Vit


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