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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Machine specific predefined names
Message-ID: <7366@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 28 Feb 88 01:32:17 GMT
References: <1988Feb17.115402.12739@light.uucp> <1988Feb25.080434.29615@utzoo.uucp> <7353@brl-smoke.ARPA> <1988Feb27.220901.8337@utzoo.uucp>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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Keywords: library names, clashes

In article <1988Feb27.220901.8337@utzoo.uucp> henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
>All that's needed is a footnote saying "note the implication that implementors
>are not allowed to reserve names, except those allotted to them in 4.1.2".

Our Redactor (draft standard editor) generally doesn't seem too happy about
littering the body of the standard itself with footnotes, preferring to leave
most of the explanatory stuff to the Rationale document.  However, we've
added some such footnotes before, so your request would not be without
precedent.