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Re: Compile error

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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?

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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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