From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
To: cygwin@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: bug in ctype.h
Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 17:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000313204124.B22468@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200003140119.RAA29931@aleph.ssd.hal.com>
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 05:19:28PM -0800, J. J. Farrell wrote:
>>It was my understanding that symbols that begin with "_" were supposed
>>to be the province of a system library and are not supposed to be used
>>by user programs. Or was it "__". I can never remember.
>
>Identifiers beginning "_" followed by another "_" or an upper-case
>letter are reserved in all situations. Any "ordinary" program which
>uses such identifiers is incorrect. This is not a bug.
Thanks for the clarification.
cgf
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-03-13 9:08 Levente Farkas
2000-03-13 9:56 ` Chris Faylor
2000-03-13 9:59 ` Levente Farkas
2000-03-13 10:06 ` Chris Faylor
2000-03-13 10:12 ` Levente Farkas
2000-03-13 17:19 ` J. J. Farrell
2000-03-13 17:41 ` Chris Faylor [this message]
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