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Re: Static analysis tools to catch use of reserved identifiers?

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From	Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
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Subject	Re: Static analysis tools to catch use of reserved identifiers?
Date	Wed, 07 Feb 2024 08:38:46 -0800
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Anthony Cuozzo <anthony@cuozzo.us> writes:
> My inspiration is this post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39275575

According to that post clang's "-Wreserved-identifier" option warns
about identifiers that are reserved by the C standard.

> I'm interested in knowing if there are any static analysis tools which
> catch uses of reserved identifier patterns under standard C in
> addition to those reserved under POSIX.
>
> (Please forgive me if "identifier" is the wrong term here. I'm
> interested in looking at variable names, function names, typedef
> names, struct/union/enum (and their members) names, preprocessor macro
> names, etc.)

If I understand you correctly, "identifier" is exactly the right term.

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Static analysis tools to catch use of reserved identifiers? Anthony Cuozzo <anthony@cuozzo.us> - 2024-02-07 10:13 -0500
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