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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Ansi C -- no system-specific pre-#defines
Message-ID: <6928@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 6 Jan 88 01:23:47 GMT
References: <8712260015.AA01517@decwrl.dec.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <8712260015.AA01517@decwrl.dec.com> minow@thundr.dec.com (Martin Minow THUNDR::MINOW ML3-5/U26 223-9922) writes:
>>be replaced by a compiler-specific _noalias keyword and a user writing
>Unfortunately, the Ansi committee doesn't seem to allow vendor-specific
>pre-defined variables.

Sure it does, so long as they start with an underscore (and, if they are
not external identifiers, followed by either an underscore or a capital
letter).  See section 4.1.2.