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From: geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: syntax for external aliases (previously $ in identifiers poll)
Message-ID: <278@desint.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 22-Dec-84 15:01:06 EST
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Posted: Sat Dec 22 15:01:06 1984
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In article <635@bunker.UUCP> garys@bunker.UUCP (Gary M. Samuelson) writes:

>OK, how about:
>
>	extern sys_read() = "SYS$READ";
>

Nope, because this can't be used for anything except functions.  Specifically,
I may want to write

	extern "SYS$_ERROR_CODE" int errno;

(Yuck!  A syntax designer I clearly am not.  Would somebody with some talent
please step into this and save me from myself?)

How about:

	extern char *getopt (): "LIB$GET_MCR";

(I figure if I cause you guys enough pain, I will *force* you into making a
better suggestion).
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	Geoff Kuenning
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