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Re: Summary of the "Use __unused0" discussion.


On Fri, 3 Feb 2012, Roland McGrath wrote:

> IMHO it's worthwhile to establish a convention for padding fields and do a
> single pass changing all uses to conform.  __reservedN seems like a decent
> convention off hand.  (Commence flame war about whether N starts at 0 or 1.)

If we're changing them all then I'd go for a convention that shows 
unambiguously what part of the implementation owns that part of the 
implementation namespace, e.g. __glibc_reservedN.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com


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