Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: va_list used in 
Message-ID: <1989Aug18.184512.26704@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
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Date: Fri, 18 Aug 89 18:45:12 GMT

In article <13572@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> scs@adam.pika.mit.edu (Steve Summit) writes:
>>Warning!  Use __iob or _Iob, not _iob, in your .
>
>I'm not sure what is implied here.  It seems to me that _iob is
>no more reserved that any other reserved identifier...
>... Doug's point may just have to do with the
>distinction between single and double leading underscores or
>something.)

Pretty much so.  __iob and _Iob are both in the name space that is defined
as available to the implementor and forbidden to the user.  _iob is in the
*user* name space and the implementation must not usurp it.
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