Opened 11 years ago

#6116 new Bugs

In chain.hpp there is a variable named "null"

Reported by: herod.scott at gmail.com Owned by: Jonathan Turkanis
Milestone: To Be Determined Component: iostreams
Version: Boost 1.46.0 Severity: Problem
Keywords: null chain.hpp Cc:

Description

In boost/iostreams/chain.hpp on line 322 (of version 1.46 and others) there is a variable named "null". While that is legal C++, it is unfortunately all too common for people to place something like "#define null 0" somewhere else in their code base. It would be nice if that variable name could be made something like "null_device" which is less likely to cause a problem due to other code.

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