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From: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery (the tame hacker on the North Coast))
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: $ in identifiers -- poll
Message-ID: <526@ncoast.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 1-Jan-85 18:53:07 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan  1 18:53:07 1985
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Reply-To: bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery (the tame hacker on the North Coast))
Organization: The North Coast Xenix System, Cleveland
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Summary: 

How about this construct:

	extern sys_read() : "SYS$READ";

About the only possible clash is with bitfields, and this wouldn't be
useful where bitfield declarations are legal (i.e. inside structures).
It also wouldn't eat up the `entry' keyword.

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