[2251] in Kerberos-V5-bugs
krb5-beta7: NEAR, FAR not properly defined when header files
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Sun Sep 22 12:58:29 1996
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 12:53:57 -0400
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@annex-1-slip-jik.cam.ov.com>
To: krb5-bugs@MIT.EDU, kerberos@MIT.EDU
If I preprocess this file:
#include <kerberosIV/krb.h>
#include <com_err.h>
#include <krb5.h>
NEAR
The last line of the preprocessor output contains "NEAR". If,
however, I swap <com_err.h> and <krb.h>, the last line of the
preprocessor output is (correctly) blank.
All of the preprocessor stuff in the various header files is so hairy
and disgusting that I had to spend quite a while just figuring out
this problem. I assume there's someone at MIT who came up with the
idea of putting the same stuff in N different header files and who
understands how it's all supposed to work; that person will probably
be able to fix this problem far more quickly than I can, so I leave it
to him to come up with a patch.
jik
