Re: Handling 'initializer element not constant' error

In article <87abj1u4q4.fsf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
Ben Pfaff  <blp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>richard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Richard Tobin) writes:
>
>> The C standard recognises the problems with errno and doesn't require
>> it to be an identifier.  
>
>It's definitely an identifier.  However, it might not be the name
>of a variable with external linkage.

errno is explicitly allowed to be a macro (n869 7.5#2).
A brief look through the definitions in n869 indicates that a macro
name is indeed covered under the standardese use of "identifier", but
it seems that referring to a macro as an identifier in informal use is
gratuitiously confusing, especially when what the macro expands to need
not be an identifier.


dave

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Dave Vandervies                      dj3vande at eskimo dot com
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