Comment by shakna

Comment by shakna a day ago

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Whilst you do point to 6.4.3 for where it does reserve "All identifiers that begin with a double underscore (__) or begin with an underscore (_) followed by an uppercase letter"... That section also has the lovely:

> Other identifiers may be reserved.

If an implementation of C uses it... Just... Don't. The standard won't save you here, because it's happy for an implementation to do whatever they feel like.

flohofwoe a day ago

Yeah, and that makes any reserved name rules pretty much useless anyway, e.g. anything goes until a collision actually happens, and then it needs to be fixed on the user side anyway.