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Re: Compile error

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On 01/16/12 10:55 AM, Keith Thompson wrote:
> dspfun<dspfun@hotmail.com>  writes:
>> I get a compile/preprocessor error when trying to call/use the
>> following line:
>> openlog (__FUNCTION__, 0x02 | 0x01 | 0x08, (1<<3));
>>
>>
>> The openlog function is declared as:
>>
>> extern void openlog (__const char *__ident, int __option, int
>> __facility);
>
> Is "__const" a macro for "const"?  If so, why not just use "const"?
> If it's to cater to compilers that don't support "const", I hardly think
> that's necessary these days.
>
> Why are the parameter names reserved identifiers?  (The implementation
> is free to define "__ident" as a macro, which would break the
> declaration.)

It looks like a bastardised version of the standard Unix function 
declaration:

void openlog(const char *ident, int logopt, int facility);

-- 
Ian Collins

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Compile error dspfun <dspfun@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-15 08:14 -0800
  Re: Compile error NEON China BLUE <chine.bleu@yahoo.com> - 2012-01-15 08:29 -0800
    Re: Compile error dspfun <dspfun@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-15 08:32 -0800
      Re: Compile error dspfun <dspfun@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-15 09:07 -0800
  Re: Compile error "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2012-01-15 17:13 +0000
  Re: Compile error Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-15 13:55 -0800
    Re: Compile error Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-16 11:25 +1300
    Re: Compile error Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-01-15 23:28 +0000
    Re: Compile error Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2012-01-16 12:37 +0000
      Re: Compile error Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-16 12:02 -0800
        Re: Compile error blp@cs.stanford.edu (Ben Pfaff) - 2012-01-16 13:23 -0800
          Re: Compile error Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2012-01-16 14:17 -0800
            Re: Compile error dspfun <dspfun@hotmail.com> - 2012-01-17 03:40 -0800
        Re: Compile error Kaz Kylheku <kaz@kylheku.com> - 2012-01-16 21:51 +0000

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