Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!daveb
From: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Machine specific predefined names
Keywords: library names, clashes
Message-ID: <2357@geac.UUCP>
Date: 29 Feb 88 18:01:02 GMT
Article-I.D.: geac.2357
Posted: Mon Feb 29 13:01:02 1988
References: <1988Feb17.115402.12739@light.uucp> <1988Feb21.015424.20436@utzoo.uucp> <17033@watmath.waterloo.edu> <2317@geac.UUCP> <7332@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown)
Organization: The G. Yac Pickyness Department.
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In article <2317@geac.UUCP> daveb@geac.UUCP (David Collier-Brown) writes:
||   That the ANSI committee have chosen to ignore the problem is
|| understandable, under the circumstances.  It is also an admission of
|| incompetence and/or malfeasance, but that's a different discussion.

In article <7332@brl-smoke.ARPA> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>) writes:
| Far from ignoring the name space pollution problem, a conforming ANSI C
| implementation is absolutely prohibited from infringing on the name
| space reserved for the application, and a conforming application is
| prohibited from preempting those names reserved for the implementation.

  Please note that this is **not** the subject being discussed
previously, but a reasonable work-around for it.  I use the same
workaround.
  That does not make it a solution.  In fact, its presence indicates
that the solution is either unacceptable or undesirable. And that's
what I'm accusing the committee of. (That's the different
discussion, you see.)

 --dave (Yeah, I read it.  It's often pretty good, but...) c-b
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