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Re: egcs-1.0.3a on DEC Alpha / DU4.0b: typedef of ulong in types.h
- To: law at cygnus dot com
- Subject: Re: egcs-1.0.3a on DEC Alpha / DU4.0b: typedef of ulong in types.h
- From: Per Bothner <bothner at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Jul 1998 09:25:45 -0700
- cc: "Oliver M. Kellogg" <Oliver dot Kellogg at vs dot dasa dot de>, egcs at cygnus dot com
> I don't have an ANSI reference handy, but I do not believe "ulong" is
> a reserved type, and the definition in sys/types.h is thus polluting
> the ANSI namespace.
That should be "Posix namespace". <sys/types.h> is a Posix header, not an
ANSI header, and thus is free to add to the "user namespace", according
to ANSI, but not accordingto Posix.
--Per Bothner
Cygnus Solutions bothner@cygnus.com http://www.cygnus.com/~bothner