Re: CVS commit: src

[David Holland <dholland-sourcechanges%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 09:51:00PM +0200, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
 > > > A related note: should we provide typeof(3) in the restricted namespace
 > > > instead, i.e. as __typeof(3)?
 > > 
 > > People are more likely to find the page if it's installed as
 > > typeof(3), I think, since that's how they'll think of it, and if
 > > necessary the page can include discussion of when it's an available
 > > symbol.
 > 
 > No, I mean shouldn't this be defined conditionally in cdefs(3)? But
 > as typeof(3) can not be replaced by another compiler-agnostic
 > construct (?), probably not.

Oh, I see. It might be desirable but as it's a language extension I'm
not sure we get that degree of control.

However, since AFAICR typeof is fairly likely to appear in c1x,
probably many compilers will eventually supply it.

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David A. Holland
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