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- From: thads@csn.net (Thad Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.std.c
- Subject: Re: Meaning of __STDC__?
- Date: 13 Jan 1996 18:48:05 -0700
- Organization: T3 Systems
- Message-ID: <8vF+wQ9yt9PS084yn@csn.net>
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- <4d8ved$bdu@natasha.rmii.com>
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- In article <4d8ved$bdu@natasha.rmii.com>,
- jcoffin@rmii.com (Jerry Coffin) wrote:
-
- >AFAIK, as long as any extensions fit the standard, they're legal. E.g.
- >a compiler is free to include extended fucntions and/or keywords as long
- >as their identifiers are in the implementor's name space.
-
- And an implementation is free to add other functions in the users'
- namespace, I think, as long as
-
- 1) prototypes only appear when selecting non-standard headers, and
- 2) they don't interfere with explicit user names (usually the
- explicitly loaded functions take precedence over the system library
- routines).
-