Token pasting in #include directive

Steve Emmerson steve at groucho.ucar.edu
Sat Dec 2 11:12:32 AEST 1989


mcgrath at paris.Berkeley.EDU (Roland McGrath) writes:

>They can be:
>	extern char *strcpy(char *__dest, const char *__source);
>with no problems, since __foo is in the implementation's namespace.

True.  But what about the rest of us (i.e. non-implementors).  Should
we begin to "comment out" argument names in prototypes, or use
single leading underscores, or just hope for the best (with or without
documentation)?

--Steve Emmerson	steve at unidata.ucar.edu



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