Machine specific predefined names

Henry Spencer henry at utzoo.uucp
Thu Feb 25 18:04:34 AEST 1988


> You know, it would be nice if people would at least READ the proposed
> standard before publicly proclaiming what they think is wrong with it.

Don't flame him too loudly, Doug.  The crucial point here (implementations
not allowed to reserve other non-_ names) is an *EXTREMELY SUBTLE* result
of the wording in the current draft, so subtle that I can easily imagine
even a compiler implementor missing it entirely.  This badly needs at least
a footnote (and I intend to say so in my formal comments).
-- 
Those who do not understand Unix are |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
condemned to reinvent it, poorly.    | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry



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