Re: 2.4.9 does not compile [PATCH]

Jeff Dike
2001-08-17T02:40:33Z

aia21@cam.ac.uk said:
> There are no clashes; unless my knowledge of C has abandoned me at the
> moment, you can reuse variable names within local statement blocks
> and the compiler is intelligent enough to sort it out.

Sorry, you're right. I wasn't thinking this through enough. I was thinking
that
min(a, min(b, c))
would cause cpp to do things like
int __x = (__x)

It seems the only problematic case is calling it with __x type arguments.

Jeff