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A oddity... can anyone explain this?

Compile this little file with egcs-1.1.1.

#include <stdlib.h>

typedef enum
{
	BIG_ENDIAN,
	LITTLE_ENDIAN
} ENDIAN_TYPE;

main()
{
}

It comes up with:

tahallah[alex]:/home/alex/src/test > gcc endian.c -o endian
endian.c:5: parse error before `4321'

I did a quick grep around and found a whole bunch of BIG_ENDIAN defines in
the includes, but the odd thing was that they were all prefixed with __. 

This is from endian.h in /usr/include.

#define __LITTLE_ENDIAN 1234
#define __BIG_ENDIAN    4321
#define __PDP_ENDIAN    3412

I'm at a loss as to why this should generate an compiler error when my
definitions aren't prefixed with '__'.

Cheers,
Alex
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