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mh7 on Jan 7, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Modern C for C++ peeps (2019)

No it is not reserved, it's just posix's personal style guides. There's just as much of a name clash possibility when not using _t because lots of other libraries and platforms uses some other convention.

Only ISO C can reserve things, no one else, and ISO C does not reserve the _t suffix.

heywhatupboys on Jan 8, 2023 [–]

I think it is pedantic to say that POSIX's guidance is not the de-facto C standard, or at least that the union of rules between ISO and POSIX

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