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From: bc@halley.UUCP (Bill Crews)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Subject: Re: Cfront output (partly) explained
Message-ID: <330@halley.UUCP>
Date: 24 Feb 88 08:43:28 GMT
References: <542@acf3.NYU.EDU>
Reply-To: bc@halley.UUCP (Bill Crews)
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Organization: Tandem Computers, Austin, TX
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In article <542@acf3.NYU.EDU> pedersen@acf3.UUCP (paul pedersen) writes:

>The reason for prefixing field names with struct names is to handle old
>C compilers, which barf if more than one struct uses a given field name.

>I can't account for the "au0_" prefixes, but probably the reason is something
>similar: handling old C compilers.

Here's a vote for a default of assuming modern compilers and a compile option
for generating code for olden compilers.  It's tough to debug this stuff
otherwise.

-bc
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