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Re: (printf) ("hello world\n");
Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> writes:
> On 10-dec-03, at 14:36, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
>> On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
>>> On 10-dec-03, at 13:27, Robert Dewar wrote:
>>>> Is it really true that the name printf is reserved? Is a C program not
>>>> allowed to define its own printf function (which might or might not be
>>>> varargs)? What's the story here?
>>>
>>> It is reserved only in translation units that have stdio.h #include'd.
>>
>> It is reserved (in a hosted environment) as an identifier with external
>> linkage regardless of what headers are included (7.1.3#1).
>
> That does not prevent you from declaring and defining your own
> printf() function (with a different prototype) though; it only requires
> that you make that function have external linkage.
Which requires that you declare it in the first place, otherwise it will
have implicitly external linkage.
Andreas.
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