List of reserved words

[Ali Çehreli]

On 10/11/2012 11:52 AM, Alex Rønne Petersen wrote:
> On 11-10-2012 20:41, Maxim Fomin wrote:
>> On Thursday, 11 October 2012 at 18:20:27 UTC, monarch_dodra wrote:
>>> In C, *technically*, anything ending in _t is reserved for future
>>> usage, but this is not enforced.
>>
>> Where this is claimed?
>>
>>
>
> 6.10.7.2:
>
> None of these macro names, nor the identifier defined, shall be the
> subject of a #define or a #undef preprocessing directive. Any other
> predefined macro names shall begin with a leading underscore followed by
> an uppercase letter or a second underscore.
>
> So, it's not explicitly reserved, but your code can suddenly start doing
> weird things if you prefix an identifier with an underscore.
>
> This is why new keywords/types are named like _Noreturn, _Thread_local,
> etc.
>

I am sure Maxim knows about the "leading underscore" case. I think 
that's why "anything ending in _t" is being questioned. :)

I would like to know that too. I have never heard that names ending with 
_t are reserved in C or C++.

Ali