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

[Anka Kochanowska]

Hi!
In ANSI C++ the underscore is reserved for system variables, it would
be better to use nearSomething and farSometing .

Anka


On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:44 AM, David Doria <daviddoria+vtk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
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