On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, James Yonan wrote: > > Please also note that _* names are reserved name space. Don't use them > > for your functions if you can avoid it, for portability -- they might > > screw some linker. > > Are __* names reserved? What's the recommended form for naming "private" > variables (I'm coming from C++/Python where _* names are a common naming > style for class-private variables to avoid collisions with similarly named > public member functions)?
Mostly anything that starts with _ is reserved. There are some exceptions, you may name auto variables _[a-z]*, but not functions. You could use x_ as prefix though. I've googled a little and found http://oakroadsystems.com/tech/c-predef.htm#Groups to be a very useful resource (and it's concise as well). -- Matthias Andree
