[fpc-pascal] nested macros in C headers

[Sven Barth]

On 24.04.2011 12:24, Bernd wrote:
> 2011/4/24 Sven Barth<pascaldragon at googlemail.com>:
>> Hi!
>>
>> I did convert the V4L2 headers some time ago, but did not publish them yet.
>> If you want to, I can send you the Pascal file. I tested it with a radio
>> tuner, so it should work mostly.
>
> This would surely be helpful. Please consider also releasing them with
> an FPC compatible license, because while searching on google I have
> seen quite a few discussions where users were desperately searching
> for any way to access the v4l API but no existing and working solution
> for FPC seems to exist at the moment and porting all these overly
> convoluted and obfuscated kernel headers into something readable and
> usable is really not a trivial task at all.

@FPC devs: Is it ok to put the usual FPC header on top of the file 
instead of it's original header? I'm too less experienced in those 
license/copyright related things to decide this...

This is the header of the original .h file:

===header begin===

/*
  *  Video for Linux Two header file
  *
  *  Copyright (C) 1999-2007 the contributors
  *
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  *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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  *      Header file for v4l or V4L2 drivers and applications
  * with public API.
  * All kernel-specific stuff were moved to media/v4l2-dev.h, so
  * no #if __KERNEL tests are allowed here
  *
  *      See http://linuxtv.org for more info
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  *      Author: Bill Dirks <bill at thedirks.org>
  *              Justin Schoeman
  *              Hans Verkuil <hverkuil at xs4all.nl>
  *              et al.
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===header end===

Regards,
Sven