On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 01:01:09PM +0300, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
> 
> But I still don't understand one aspect.
> Why non-portable way of doing this renaming is used instead of
> just using macro like
> 
>    #define func func_new
> 
> for the example above. This may work for all compilers, not only gcc and pcc.

The problem is that the #define has far too wide a scope.
Names of external functions can also be structure element names, and
that would give massive problems with the order of #includes.

	David

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