On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 09:38:55PM +0300, Serhiy Storchaka wrote:
> > In early ages of C structures didn't create namespaces, and member
> > names were globals.
> >That's nonsense. The reason is greppability.
> Good reason!
The first time I heard about prefixing struct members was to allow
tricks like this:
x86_64-linux-gnu/bits/stat.h
94:# define st_atime st_atim.tv_sec /* Backward compatibility. */
95:# define st_mtime st_mtim.tv_sec
96:# define st_ctime st_ctim.tv_sec
Which is relatively safe thanks to the prefix.
David
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