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From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP v2.05: some thoughts
Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 07:52:37 +0000 (UTC)
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In comp.os.msdos.djgpp Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroeker AT t-online DOT de> wrote:
> Am 05.06.2015 um 22:19 schrieb Nick Bowler:
> > [cross-posting this to comp.std.c for comments]
> > It's reserved for the implementation (DJGPP in this case) because this
> > text occurs in a library subclause.

> No, it's not.  It says an implementation *may* _define_ additional 
> identifiers, but that doesn't _reserve_ those identifiers.

They may not be reserved (in Standardese), but as a user you can't
count on that there is not an "E[0-9A-Z]*", thus effectively making
them reserved (in English).


Anyway the other sections (7.1.3 and 7.26.3) of the standard does
reserve them (for DJGPP) IMO.


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MartinS