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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:55:47 -0500
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: bug in ctype.h
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In-Reply-To: <38CD205F.1ADDE77B@mindmaker.hu>; from !spam-lfarkas@mindmaker.hu on Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 06:07:43PM +0100

On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 06:07:43PM +0100, Levente Farkas wrote:
>hi,
>I thing it's a real bug in ctype.h in cygwin:
>-------------
>#define _U  01
>#define _L  02
>#define _N  04
>#define _S  010
>#define _P  020
>#define _C  040
>#define _X  0100
>#define _B  0200
>--------------
>and there is no undef pair of these defines. ok you can use every
>name with starts with _, but it's a real nightmare (the _X is the
>worst).

Um, how would you undef these?  They're used in macros.

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.

cgf

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