typedef names

Miles Bader bader+ at andrew.cmu.edu
Sat Jan 20 11:14:47 AEST 1990


karl at haddock.ima.isc.com (Karl Heuer) writes:
> Likewise, you should probably not use _t for your own typedefs, because POSIX
> reserves this entire class for use in <sys/types.h>.

Now that's an incredibly stupid thing to do, given the large number of people
who already do use _t suffixes.  It's sort of like reserving all macro names
that use ALLCAPS...

[I hope you mis-read this or something]

-Miles



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