Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Machine specific predefined names
Message-ID: <1988Feb25.080434.29615@utzoo.uucp>
Keywords: library names, clashes
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1988Feb17.115402.12739@light.uucp>
Date: Thu, 25 Feb 88 08:04:34 GMT

> You know, it would be nice if people would at least READ the proposed
> standard before publicly proclaiming what they think is wrong with it.

Don't flame him too loudly, Doug.  The crucial point here (implementations
not allowed to reserve other non-_ names) is an *EXTREMELY SUBTLE* result
of the wording in the current draft, so subtle that I can easily imagine
even a compiler implementor missing it entirely.  This badly needs at least
a footnote (and I intend to say so in my formal comments).
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