[jira] [Commented] (CASSANDRA-4725) VERSION string conflict in C++ programs

["Jonathan Ellis (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Jonathan Ellis commented on CASSANDRA-4725:
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Doesn't seem like it's worth breaking existing clients to fix this; new clients should use native protocol instead.
                
> VERSION string conflict in C++ programs
> ---------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: CASSANDRA-4725
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/CASSANDRA-4725
>             Project: Cassandra
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Core
>            Reporter: Jochen Topf
>
> In cassandra.thrift there is a definition like this:
> const string VERSION = "19.32.0"
> When building the C++ code with thrift, this leads to a file cassandra_constants.h and cassandra_constants.cpp which contain the following lines:
> cassandra_constants.cpp:  VERSION = "19.32.0";
> cassandra_constants.h:  std::string VERSION;
> Unfortunately "VERSION" is all uppercase, this is generally used in macros in C++ and the macro "VERSION" is used in many programs for instance when using GNU autoconf. If there is a VERSION macro it will be expanded and those lines will break.
> Maybe we can rename this to "Version" or so?

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