Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 18:20:34 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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> Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 08:54:15 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Alain Magloire" <alain AT qnx DOT com>
> 
> Well I can show a bad example ;-)
> # cat x.cc
> ---------------
> int x (int __op);
> 
> int x (int op)
> {
>  return op;
> }
> ---------------
> # g++ -c x.cc
> 
> Now try to compile this with g++.

That's __op with two underscores, whereas we use one, and for a good
reason.

> Variables, macros, etc .. that are start with a leading '_' are reserved
> by the C/C++ implementation

That's true if the identifier begins with an underscore and an
upper-case letter, or with two underscores.  One underscore and a
lower-case letter should be okay.