Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: va_list used inMessage-ID: <1989Aug18.184512.26704@utzoo.uucp> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1140@midgard.Midgard.MN.ORG> <10720@smoke.BRL.MIL> <2095@dataio.Data-IO.COM> <10739@smoke.BRL.MIL> <13572@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> 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. -- V7 /bin/mail source: 554 lines.| Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology 1989 X.400 specs: 2200+ pages. | uunet!attcan!utzoo!henry henry@zoo.toronto.edu