Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: macro parameter names
Message-ID: <1989Nov28.061445.12359@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <11160@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> <1989Nov22.222413.3874@utzoo.uucp> <11188@riks.csl.sony.co.jp> <11685@smoke.BRL.MIL> <18672@watdragon.waterloo.edu> <1989Nov27.223210.29880@utzoo.uucp>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 89 06:14:45 GMT

In article <1989Nov27.223210.29880@utzoo.uucp> I wrote:
>>What about the library prototypes that are coded "int foo( int x, int y )"
>>when they should be "int foo( int __x, int __y )"?
>
>Can you cite chapter and verse for why the parameter names need to be in
>the implementation name space? ...

Oops.  Anyone comparing the Subject line to the topic will realize that
I must have been half asleep when I wrote that -- I confused macro
parameters (which are not a problem) with function-prototype parameters
(which are).
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