PATCH: Replace _XXX with XXX_P

H.J. Lu hjl.tools@gmail.com
Tue Dec 15 17:22:00 GMT 2009


On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 9:13 AM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@redhat.com> wrote:
> "H.J. Lu" <hongjiu.lu@intel.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> _XXX is reserved. We can't use it in user codes. In fact, mingw headers
>> use _XXX.
>
> Actually that's a bug in the mingw headers.  Identifiers starting with
> an underscore and a lower case letter are only reserved at file scope.
>

What did you mean? When/where can applications use _xxxx? Gcc
defines a bunch of _mm_xxx intrinsics. If you use _xxx, it may not
work with gcc.


-- 
H.J.



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