Tiled memory

Fergus Henderson fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU
Mon Mar 17 04:31:00 GMT 1997


[Apologies for contnuing this off-topic thread.]

Chin Chee-Kai wrote:
> 
> BTW, why is it underscored?  (_saturated)

To avoid breaking existing programs that use `saturated' to mean something
else.

BTW, if you want ANSI/ISO C conformance, it should be `__saturated'.
or `_Saturated' or something like that.  Names starting with an underscore
and a lower-case letter are not reserved for the implementation in all
contexts.

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