[vtkusers] VTK cvs compile errors - reserved words near & far

[David Doria]

On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Francois Bertel
<francois.bertel at kitware.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I don't where you found those near and far things in
> vtkShadowMapPass.*. There is no such thing. In addition,
> vtkShadowMapPass is part of vtkRendering package which is built every
> night on Windows and I never saw such error reported on the VTK
> dashboard.
>
> Are sure about the name of the file you are talking about?
>
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Dean Inglis <dean.inglis at camris.ca> wrote:
>> Im updating my VTK build to the latest cvs and I am
>> running into a slew of fatal syntax errors that are caused by the use of
>> "near" and "far" in vtkShadowMapPass.cxx.  These variable names are already
>> #defined in windef.h.
>> Im using VS Express 2005 static build on Win32 Vista.  Changing (for
>> example) "near" to "_near" and "far" to "_far" resolves the issues.  Any
>> suggestions on a better fix than
>> prepending with "_" ?
>>
>> Dean
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I got a report from CDash complaining about this:

http://www.cdash.org/CDash/viewBuildError.php?type=0&buildid=517845

Lines 102 and 103 of vtkShadowMapPass.cxx are
    near = (dot < near ? dot : near);
    far = (dot > far? dot:far);

Thanks,

David