[vbox-dev] 4.2-rc kernels and strreplace(s, old, new) causing Virtualbox build issues

[Alessandro Suardi]

Hi all,

  while attempting to reproduce the build issues with manual.pdf as per

  https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=68925

  I tried my luck with today's Virtualbox trunk under 4.2-rc5... and well,
   no luck with my manual.pdf issue - if any kind soul could give ideas
   on where to start debugging, that'd be really golden.

However, back on topic - this testing uncovers a different build issue,
 that is, strreplace in newer kernels breaks Virtualbox build because
 of its third argument naming ("new") in string.h, and this choice isn't
 welcomed by G++ when parsing the kernel includes...

I'm attaching the kernel-side bandaid I used to progress towards the
 brick wall of manual.pdf - but I don't know whether there are better
 preprocessor directives to use Virtualbox-side... this is nothing more
 than a heads-up :)


thanks,

--alessandro

"don't underestimate the things that I will do"

 (Adele, "Rolling In The Deep")
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--- linux-4.2.0-rc5-orig/lib/string.c	2015-08-04 11:25:04.649315825 +0200
+++ linux-4.2.0-rc5/lib/string.c	2015-08-04 15:19:05.239793996 +0200
@@ -858,11 +858,11 @@
  *
  * Returns pointer to the nul byte at the end of @s.
  */
-char *strreplace(char *s, char old, char new)
+char *strreplace(char *s, char old, char newstr)
 {
 	for (; *s; ++s)
 		if (*s == old)
-			*s = new;
+			*s = newstr;
 	return s;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(strreplace);
--- linux-4.2.0-rc5-orig/include/linux/string.h	2015-08-04 11:25:02.909357388 +0200
+++ linux-4.2.0-rc5/include/linux/string.h	2015-08-04 15:19:23.484397932 +0200
@@ -111,7 +111,7 @@
 extern void * memchr(const void *,int,__kernel_size_t);
 #endif
 void *memchr_inv(const void *s, int c, size_t n);
-char *strreplace(char *s, char old, char new);
+char *strreplace(char *s, char old, char newstr);
 
 extern void kfree_const(const void *x);