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From: Chris Faylor <cgf AT cygnus DOT com>
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 20:41:24 -0500
To: cygwin AT sourceware DOT cygnus DOT com
Subject: Re: bug in ctype.h
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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

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