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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC] Splitting kernel headers and deprecating __KERNEL__
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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
X-Yow: If our behavior is strict, we do not need fun!
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2004 17:55:02 +0100
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0412140734340.3279@ppc970.osdl.org> (Linus
 Torvalds's message of "Tue, 14 Dec 2004 07:49:05 -0800 (PST)")
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> This is a common issue with namespace pollution. For example, this program 
> is perfectly valid afaik (well, except for being _stupid_, but that's 
> another issue):
>
> 	#include <stdio.h>
>
> 	const char *int32_t(int i)
> 	{
> 		return i ? "non-zero" : "zero";
> 	}

Actually this is not allowed in POSIX.  _Any_ header may define any
identifier ending with "_t".

Andreas.

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