Re: VAX

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From	Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: VAX
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Kaz Kylheku <643-408-1753@kylheku.com> writes:
> On 2025-08-05, Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Breaking existing code that uses "_BitInt" as an identifier is
>> a non-issue.  There very probably is no such code.
>
> However, that doesn't mean GCC can carelessly introduce identifiers
> in this namespace.

Agreed -- and in gcc did not do that in this case.  I was referring to
_BitInt, not to other identifiers in the reserved namespace.

Do you have any reason to believe that gcc's use of _BitInt will break
any existing code?  My best guess is that there is no such code, that
the only real world uses of the name _BitInt are deliberate uses of the
new C23 feature, and that gcc's support of _BitInt in non-C23 mode
will not break anything.

It is of course possible that I'm wrong.

If the name _BitInt did break (non-portable) existing C code, then the
fault would lie with the C committee, not with the gcc maintainers.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */

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