Jens Schweikhardt wrote: >> http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Reserved-Names.html > > If you read that page, count the number of rules, which identifier is > reserved and when.
It looks like a big challenge to create unique identifiers. > How much easier is it to use __foo and be done? It may be convenient to ignore or exclude a few rules. But I have got doubts because software correctness might be affected. > It appears you are arguing for not entering the implementation name space > for standard conformance's sake. Yes - I stress this design aspect a bit. > Strict ISO C conformance could never be a goal here. I hope that open issues from the applied naming convention can be improved. > Believe it or not, I even wrote a program to check for name space issues > in C implementations so that compiler vendors can improve their > sometimes shoddy understanding of it Would any software developer like to be more strict with parts from the VirtualBox source code? Regards, Markus _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
