Re: '$' as "valid" character in identifiers

[Michael Stefaniuc <mstefani@redhat.com>]

Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 02:18:11PM +0100, Derek M Jones wrote:
>>> And now for reality: of course if we set out to imitate the implementation
>>> allowing $, we'd better imitate it.  The question is what to watch out
>>> for and how to avoid buggering the tokenizer in process.
>> If sparse is going to imitate a VAX implementation then how $ is glued
>> is probably the least of the implemention worries.
> 
> I suspect that the real issue is whatever stuff Windows uses (and no,
> I don't have Windows boxen either).  Anybody who wants to work on
I do not know what VC++ is doing but the Win32 API has _no_ $ in 
identifiers whatsoever. The code over which sparse tripped was a 
variable defined in an else block in the winedump utility. And that is 
not even a Win32 application but a pure standard C one. I sent a patch 
to Wine to fix that (todays commit session didn't happen yet).

 From Wine point of view we do not need to handle the '$'.

> code that last compiled on VAX is not going to be happy with what
> sparse will say about it, anyway.  More realistic case is a codebase
> with some VMS ancestry that got moved to Windows.
Wine is not supported on VMS ;)

bye
	michael
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