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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.std.c
Subject: Re: macro names
Keywords: name spaces, reserved identifiers
Message-ID: <14828@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 11 Jan 91 23:26:42 GMT
References: <4640@mcrware.UUCP>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <4640@mcrware.UUCP> jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones) writes:
>Given all this, are the identifiers named in 4.1.2.1 that don't begin with
>__ or _[A-Z] (p.98, lines 7-8) reserved for use as macro names or are they not?

I frankly don't understand why there would be any question about this.
Macro names are ordinary identifiers, as is obvious from 3.1.2.3.
The scope of macro definitions is specified in 3.8.3.5; the phases of
translation (2.1.1.2) ensure that 3.1.2.1 is not relevant for macro
names.