Re: identifiers in header files

[Ben Pfaff]

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> writes:

> Paul Eggert wrote:
>> >   extern long double acosl (long double x);
>> 
>> In proofreading this I noticed that gnulib math.h isn't 100%
>> compatible with C99 math.h, since it doesn't allow you to include
>> math.h after a perverse macro definition like "#define x char *".
>> Other gnulib .h files (e.g., time.h) work around this problem by
>> prefixing the parameters with double-underscore
>
> You are looking at it from the perspective of a gnulib user who wants a
> <math.h> but the freedom to use identifiers like 'x' and '_x' completely
> freely. According to this perspective, gnulib should not use 'x' or '_x'.
>
> The other perspective is from the libc vendors. For them, gnulib is violating
> their territory of identifiers if gnulib uses identifiers like '__x'.

Gnulib could carve out its own name space by using gl_x (or
whatever) instead of x or __x.
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