On Fri, 19 Aug 2005, Yao qi wrote: > Hi, everyone, > I have looked through C99 standard, in 6.4.1 Keywords, "_Imaginary" is > mentioned as a keyword in this standard. However, it seems that GCC can not > recognize it, report error: '_Imaginary' undeclared. I also search it in GCC > info, there is no spot mentioned that. Maybe GCC does not include it as a > keyword, I am not sure about that, am I missing something? Maybe someone of > you could clarify for me. Thanks in advance.
What use do you have for a keyword which is reserved but cannot be used anywhere? As of TC2, _Imaginary is just that; it is not a type specifier, and an implementation implementing Annex G (which is not normative) is incompatible with the normative parts of the standard (at least as regards the header definition of "I" having conflicting definitions in the standard and in Annex G). There are serious doubts (as discussed on the WG14 reflector in the past) about the utility of imaginary types as defined in Annex G. Now, adding _Imaginary as a keyword which is not permitted anywhere in the syntax (so you get parse errors and can't e.g. declare variables called _Imaginary) would be a trivial patch, but not clearly a very useful one. -- Joseph S. Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
