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Article #2278Re: macro names
From: Doug Gwyn
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 1991 23:26
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 1991 23:26
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In article <4640@mcrware.UUCP> jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones) writes: >Given all this, are the identifiers named in 4.1.2.1 that don't begin with >__ or _[A-Z] (p.98, lines 7-8) reserved for use as macro names or are they not? I frankly don't understand why there would be any question about this. Macro names are ordinary identifiers, as is obvious from 3.1.2.3. The scope of macro definitions is specified in 3.8.3.5; the phases of translation (2.1.1.2) ensure that 3.1.2.1 is not relevant for macro names.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ames!haven!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn) Newsgroups: comp.std.c Subject: Re: macro names Keywords: name spaces, reserved identifiers Message-ID: <14828@smoke.brl.mil> Date: 11 Jan 91 23:26:42 GMT References: <4640@mcrware.UUCP> Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD. Lines: 9