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Re: Meaning of __STDC__?

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From: Thad Smith
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 01:48
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In article <4d8ved$bdu@natasha.rmii.com>,
jcoffin@rmii.com (Jerry Coffin) wrote:

>AFAIK, as long as any extensions fit the standard, they're legal.  E.g.
>a compiler is free to include extended fucntions and/or keywords as long
>as their identifiers are in the implementor's name space.

And an implementation is free to add other functions in the users'
namespace, I think, as long as 

1)  prototypes only appear when selecting non-standard headers, and
2)  they don't interfere with explicit user names (usually the
explicitly loaded functions take precedence over the system library
routines).
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From: thads@csn.net (Thad Smith)
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Subject: Re: Meaning of __STDC__?
Date: 13 Jan 1996 18:48:05 -0700
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