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Re: Compile error

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Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> writes:

> Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> writes:
>> On Sun, 2012-01-15, 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.)
>>
>> To be fair to Linux glibc (from where he must have copied the above),
>> the manual page uses the normal names.
>
> So, dspfun, where did the identifiers __ident et al come from?

On a glibc system:

    blp@blp:~$ grep -r __ident /usr/include
    /usr/include/sys/syslog.h:extern void openlog (__const char *__ident, int __option, int __facility);
    blp@blp:~$ 
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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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