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Re:ISO C is increasingly moronic by gsg on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @07:44AM (#3377318)
That would require changing every single existing header that currently contains reserved identifiers. Do you have any idea how much work that is? Even if you could somehow magically enumerate and alter them all - and test them, since the necessary renaming of identifiers in non-system headers might introduce a bug - legacy versions would be floating around for years.

Conceptually a warning is a nice idea, but it just isn't practical.

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Re:ISO C is increasingly moronic by JoshTriplett on Wednesday December 21, 2011 @01:36PM (#3378527)
Not necessarily. GCC, at least, avoids showing warnings in system headers unless explicitly requested. So, normally you'd only see warnings about the use of reserved identifiers in your own code.
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