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Re: PATCH: Replace _XXX with XXX_P
- From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at redhat dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 09:22:48 -0800
- Subject: Re: PATCH: Replace _XXX with XXX_P
- References: <20091215165810.GA13847@lucon.org> <m34onsf9dc.fsf@hase.home>
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.