Re: Bison 1.30f

[Paul Eggert]

> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 23:55:29 +0100
> From: Hans Aberg <address@hidden>

> >>   #include <stdio.h>
> >
> >I agree that this shouldn't be in the output, as <stdio.h> intrudes on
> >the user's namespace.  This is true for both C and C++.
> 
> If this is C99 and C99 has namespaces, I wouldn't know (I haven't gotten
> this standard yet).

As I mentioned earlier, C99 doesn't have C++'s namespaces, but it does
have the traditional name spaces, which is what I was referring to.

> >As far as I know, <alloca.h> does infringe on the user name space in
> >all cases where <alloca.h> is actually included here.  Do you know of
> >a counterexample?
> 
> It didn't look like that on mine (MacOS pre-X and old CodeWarrior
> compiler), but I do not know what happens with size_t: alloca is macroed to
> __alloca, which is a MacOS secret library function.

That infringes on the traditional name space, then, since it reserves
"alloca".

It sounds like we're converging.