Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: ide cleanup | From | James Antill <> | Date | 08 Feb 2002 18:00:22 -0500 |
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wichert@cistron.nl (Wichert Akkerman) writes:
> In article <3C63CF54.9090308@evision-ventures.com>, > Martin Dalecki <dalecki@evision-ventures.com> wrote: > >The _t at the end of type names is a POSIX habit of markup for system > >defined types - this should *NOT* be used in user land programms but is OK for > >the kernel. > > Why, I don't see that. Everyone should use whatever notation he/she > feels most comfortable with.
Err, what? Sure mindless programmers can call a function strnew() or strconcat() if they "feel most comfortable" with that. But it's _wrong_, as that's a reserved namespace of ISO C. Jut as *_t is a reserved namespace of POSIX.
Opengroup seems really slow atm., but hopefully you'll believe one of...
http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2000-09/msg00185.html http://www.ioccc.org/1998/data
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