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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: Reserved names in ANSI C
Message-ID: <10430@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 22 Jun 89 08:05:24 GMT
References: <GEOFF.89Jun11231924@onyx.cs.warwick.ac.uk> <13680@haddock.ima.isc.com> <1598@cbnewsh.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn)
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In article <1598@cbnewsh.ATT.COM> ka@hulk.att.com writes:
>I know that ANSI C reserves all names that begin with and underscore,
>and I just learned from the above quote that it reserves all names
>beginning with "str".  Are there other names to be avoided as well?

Not all names beginning with underscore are reserved; for example,
applications may use structure members named e.g. _hidden.
Similarly, it is only external names for which the str prefix is
reserved (for future standardization).  There are several name
spaces in C, and reserved names usually are restricted to a subset
of the totality of name spaces.

A complete list should be given in any book proclaiming "ANSI C"
on its cover, of which there are several.