PATCH: Adhere to section 17.4.1.2 clause 5 of ISO 14882:1998
Gabriel Dos Reis
Gabriel.Dos-Reis@cmla.ens-cachan.fr
Fri Apr 6 11:06:00 GMT 2001
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.
-- Gaby
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