Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 20:09:17 +0200 From: "Eli Zaretskii" Sender: halo1 AT zahav DOT net DOT il To: Martin Str|mberg Message-Id: <2561-Sun21Jan2001200917+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> X-Mailer: Emacs 20.6 (via feedmail 8.3.emacs20_6 I) and Blat ver 1.8.6 CC: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com In-reply-to: <200101211631.RAA10217@father.ludd.luth.se> (message from Martin Str|mberg on Sun, 21 Jan 2001 17:31:24 +0100 (MET)) Subject: Re: Another item for develop.txi References: <200101211631 DOT RAA10217 AT father DOT ludd DOT luth DOT se> Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com Errors-To: nobody AT delorie DOT com X-Mailing-List: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com X-Unsubscribes-To: listserv AT delorie DOT com Precedence: bulk > From: Martin Str|mberg > Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 17:31:24 +0100 (MET) > > According to Eli Zaretskii: > > > Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 08:54:15 -0500 (EST) > > > From: "Alain Magloire" > > > 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. > > Isn't the C library part of the C implementation? Yes. That's why GCC folks invented #pragma system_headers (or what's its name). (And then stopped supporting it under certain switches, like -traditional, I think, sigh.)