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Re: parse-duration.c - TIME_MAX conflict


From: Bruce Korb
Subject: Re: parse-duration.c - TIME_MAX conflict
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 16:58:31 -0700
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On 06/17/14 09:06, Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen wrote:
It actually turns out that POSIX has reserved the _MIN and _MAX
suffixes for <limits.h> as stated in POSIX 2008 `2.2.2 The Name Space'.
It has a nice table with all the POSIX namespace rules that you can
view online:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/V2_chap02.html#tag_15_02_02

Hmmm.  Missed it.  Probably wrong search term.  Thank you.
They still claim any symbol ending with '_t' and such a claim
weakens the strength of their claim on name spaces.
But since my name is not Don Quixote, I'm not going to try
to push them to make a more modest and targeted name space claims.



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