Re: standards/46223: reserved identifier violation

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR standards/46223; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: standards/46223: reserved identifier violation
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 20:22:22 +0000

 On Sun, Mar 18, 2012 at 08:15:01PM +0000, Markus.Elfring%web.de@localhost 
wrote:
  > I have looked at a few header files. I see that include guards like
  > "_AIO_H_" and "_WORDEXP_H_" are used.
  > [...]
  > I am informed that such a name pattern (leading underscore and a
  > following uppercase letter) is reserved for the use in
  > implementations of compilers for the programming languages C and
  > C++.
 
 No, they are reserved for use by "the implementation", which includes
 the OS.
 
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 David A. Holland
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