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From: Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com>
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Subject: Re: "A diagram of C23 basic types"
Date: Thu, 08 May 2025 08:37:59 -0700
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Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com> writes:

> Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> writes:
>
>> Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com> writes:
>>
>>> On Mon, 14 Apr 2025 01:24:49 -0700
>>> Tim Rentsch <tr.17687@z991.linuxsc.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> about where they may or may not be used.  Do you really have a
>>>> problem avoiding identifiers defined in this or that library
>>>> header, either for all headers or just those headers required for
>>>> freestanding implementations?
>>>
>>> I don't know.  In order to know I'd have to include all
>>> standard headers into all of my C files
>>
>> Let me ask the question differently.  Have you ever run into an
>> actual problem due to inadvertent collision with a reserved
>> identifier?
>
> I'm not Michael, but I was once mildly inconvienced because I
> defined a logging function called log().  The solution was trivial:
> I changed the name.

Yes, I expect I have run into similar situations.  What I was
wondering about were problems where either the existence of
the problem or what to do to fix it needed more than a minimal
effort.