Weird name collission

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Joachim - 24 May 2007 14:07 GMT

How can a member of an enum type, like

typedef enum tagMPEG4Mode
{
    None            = 0,
    Divx            = 1,
Microsoft    = 2,
} MPEG4Mode;

collide with a namespace, like Microsoft ? These are both third party
libraries - how can I solve the name collission?

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Doug Harrison [MVP] - 24 May 2007 16:31 GMT

>How can a member of an enum type, like
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>collide with a namespace, like Microsoft ?

In C++, enum members aren't scoped to the enum but rather to the enclosing
namespace.

>These are both third party
>libraries - how can I solve the name collission?

You could rename the enumerator or enclose the enum in a namespace for the
library. Either way, you may have to recompile the library, but the odds
are much worse for the latter.

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