Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] What is the purpose of the preprocessor constant _U_ in the s

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2004 07:28:30 +0200
jscott wrote:

I�m trying to compile the Ethereal source under WinXP, and there are compile errors caused by the _/U/_ preprocessor constant. In the project settings it�s defined to be ��, an empty string. This causes a compile error,� Newline in constant.� I tried redefining it to nothing, but this doesn�t help; I just get a different compiler error message.

The _U_ is used together with the gcc compiler, to mark unused parameter. With MSVC compilers, it should just do nothing.

Please provide the exact error messages, I don't have a cristal ball at hand ...

Regards, ULFL