On 06/09/2017 13:18, Paul Eggert wrote: > Adhemerval Zanella wrote: >> My understanding was double underscore identifiers are reserved for >> implementation >> (C99 7.1.3 Reserved identifiers). > > Yes, and that's the point. When this code is used as part of Gnulib, it is > used within an application, so any identifiers it uses that start with __ > might collide with the implementation, which means it's safer to avoid them > when it's easy, as is the case here.
Right, I got your point.
