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

["Jochen Topf (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

Jochen Topf created CASSANDRA-4725:
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             Summary: 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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