Re: gcc 3 and the iostream debacle

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>     #define stdio <stdio.h>
>     ...
> 
>     #include stdio

In DEC's case "#include stdio" meant pulling it out of an archive in
some place like "SYS$INCLUDE:PRECOMPILED.LIB" (name pulled out of
thin air).

> Nice.  So you could do tasteful things like this, at least if they
> were allowed at the start of an identifier:

Well, it was so you could have structures and symbols like SYS$SYSTEM and
IO%RPR.

• Geoff Richards 18:49 on 31 Aug 2005
  • peter (Peter da Silva) 19:10 on 31 Aug 2005

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