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Re: PATCH: Adhere to section 17.4.1.2 clause 5 of ISO 14882:1998


On Fri, Apr 06, 2001 at 08:06:51PM +0200, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote:
> Loren James Rittle <rittle@latour.rsch.comm.mot.com> writes:
> | Assuming a liberal reading of this section, errno should be provided
> | as a macro even if the C implementation is something other than a
> | function or a macro (i.e. it is a global variable with external
> | linkage)...
> 
> There has been a discussion to that effect on comp.std.c++ recently,
> and Steve Clamage's reading 
> 	
> 	Message-ID: <3AB935DC.325E6AAF@sun.com>
> 
> is that errno has an external linkage, thus it cannot be a macro
> name. 

FWIW, entering that Message-ID into "the new Deja"

    http://groups.google.com/advanced_group_search

will find the article quite handily (and it's a very informative article).
I would post the result URL, but it's several hundred characters long.

A cold cup of coffee says that Google changes their interface by the time
I post this.  :-)


Phil

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