From: fjh AT cs DOT mu DOT OZ DOT AU (Fergus Henderson)
Subject: Re: Tiled memory
17 Mar 1997 07:57:33 -0800
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[Apologies for contnuing this off-topic thread.]

Chin Chee-Kai wrote:
> 
> BTW, why is it underscored?  (_saturated)

To avoid breaking existing programs that use `saturated' to mean something
else.

BTW, if you want ANSI/ISO C conformance, it should be `__saturated'.
or `_Saturated' or something like that.  Names starting with an underscore
and a lower-case letter are not reserved for the implementation in all
contexts.

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