Re: the _t suffix

[Bruce Korb]

Hi Simon,

It's true.  However, it is so ubiquitously used that there's no way
that it could ever be enforced.  I consider it bogus.  Too big of
a name space grab.  It also reserves functions beginning with
"str", too.  Also egregious, even if not stratospherically over the top.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 2:06 AM, Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> wrote:
> I've seen some people suggest that POSIX reserves the _t suffix
> namespace for its own variables.  Is this true?  If so, is there any
> need to worry about gnulib?  There are several gnulib modules that
> declares types with the _t suffix.
>
> I've found this link but it is not really clear to me that it reserves
> the _t suffix.  It does say "ANY HEADER" and "_t" but that could also
> refer to any POSIX header file, not just any header file.
> http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/V2_chap02.html
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> /Simon
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