Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sourceware.cygnus.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com From: Chris Faylor Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:41:24 -0500 To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: bug in ctype.h Message-ID: <20000313204124.B22468@cygnus.com> Reply-To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com Mail-Followup-To: cgf@cygnus.com, cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com References: <20000313125547.B1933@cygnus.com> <200003140119.RAA29931@aleph.ssd.hal.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.1.8i In-Reply-To: <200003140119.RAA29931@aleph.ssd.hal.com>; from jjf@bcs.org.uk on Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 05:19:28PM -0800 On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 05:19:28PM -0800, J. J. Farrell wrote: >>It was my understanding that symbols that begin with "_" were supposed >>to be the province of a system library and are not supposed to be used >>by user programs. Or was it "__". I can never remember. > >Identifiers beginning "_" followed by another "_" or an upper-case >letter are reserved in all situations. Any "ordinary" program which >uses such identifiers is incorrect. This is not a bug. Thanks for the clarification. cgf -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com