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Re: Namespace pollution?


"Martin v. Loewis" <martin@mira.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de> writes:

|> >  KK> Identifiers that begin with an underscore and a lower case letter
|> >  KK> or digit are merely reserved as file scope identifiers in the
|> >  KK> ordinary and tag namespace. At least in C89.
|> > 
|> > Posix agrees From the same page:
|> >     2. All identifiers that begin with an underscore are always
|> >        reserved for use as identifiers with file scope in both the
|> >        ordinary identifier and tag name spaces.  
|> > 
|> > More inbreeding :]
|> > 
|> > Wow, this is a real interesting discrepncy between the API atandards
|> > and the ABI spec.
|> > 
|> 
|> Not really. It says "identifiers with file scope", i.e. functions and
|> variables declared "static", and macros. I think this goes beyond the
|> set of reserved names in ISO C, but still it does not make "_write"
|> (or "_uname") reserved as a global symbol.

Huh? Global symbols *are* in file scope.

Andreas.

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