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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 15:25:30 -0500
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From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Values in header ?? (urgent)
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> The reason someone could have told you this is that the ANSI C
> standard says that all macro names which begin with two underscores or
> one underscore and an uppercase letter are *reserved*.

Note, for example, that the DJGPP system headers are careful to use
two underscores for those reserved things it uses, so that it won't
conflict with your use of not-two-underscored names.

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