[splint-discuss] keyword 'near'

[Roland Illig]

Putten Bob van der schrieb:
> Hello all,
> The following declaration resulted in a parsing error:
> long rmpa_instruction (short near *s1, short near *s2, unsigned short n);
> It seems that the word 'near' is the problem
> How can I solve this?

In a commonly used header file, which should be included very early by 
every source file, write:

#ifdef S_SPLINT_S
#define near /* nothing */
#endif

SPlint doesn't need the information about near and far pointers; but 
sure, if someone was to hack SPlint's source code, it could analyze them 
too, and detect inconsistencies. But in almost all cases, your program 
will crash early anyway if you make a mistake in this area.

Roland