From: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2025 17:32:27 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/18] Introduce rust: In xdiff
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On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 11:23 AM Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com> wrote:
> Cbindgen parse's Rust and generates C header files; If a field in a
> struct uses u16 as the name then Rust won't compile, and cbindgen
> can't create the C header file.

I just tried this in Rust and it turns out you actually can use u16 as
a struct field name. My bad. I think that's a bad idea and should be
discouraged though.