Hi Simon, It's true. However, it is so ubiquitously used that there's no way that it could ever be enforced. I consider it bogus. Too big of a name space grab. It also reserves functions beginning with "str", too. Also egregious, even if not stratospherically over the top.
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Simon Josefsson <[email protected]> wrote: > I've seen some people suggest that POSIX reserves the _t suffix > namespace for its own variables. Is this true? If so, is there any > need to worry about gnulib? There are several gnulib modules that > declares types with the _t suffix. > > I've found this link but it is not really clear to me that it reserves > the _t suffix. It does say "ANY HEADER" and "_t" but that could also > refer to any POSIX header file, not just any header file. > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/V2_chap02.html > > /Simon > > >
