Re: Possibly confusing documentation on FFI page w.r.t enum redeclaration?
- From: Mike Pall <mike-1311@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 18:30:16 +0100
demetri wrote:
> Unless I'm misunderstanding C's grammar (I may
> well be!) the entire text of "enum {identifier list} name" is a declaration.
Well, yes. It's declaring an enum type plus it's declaring one or
more enumeration constants.
> I apologize for what may seem like nit-picking, but several of our team's
> newcomers to LuaJIT have bumped into this so I thought it might be a source
> of wider confusion.
Thank you for the reminder! I've rephrased the paragraph:
ffi.cdef silently ignores most re-declarations. Note: avoid
re-declarations which do not conform to C99. The implementation
will eventually be changed to perform strict checks.
--Mike
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