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Re: Invalid sample definition for errno

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Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:

> A footnote in the section describing <errno.h> says:
>
>     The macro errno need not be the identifier of an object.  It might
>     expand to a modifiable lvalue resulting from a function call (for
>     example, *errno()).
>
> Footnotes are non-normative, and this one is presumably intended to be
> informal, but that's not a valid macro definition for errno, both
> because it's not fully protected by parentheses and because the function
> can't be named "errno".

I see no reason the function couldn't be named "errno".

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Invalid sample definition for errno Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> - 2022-11-19 18:08 -0800
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