[Tinyos-devel] The infamous $ in identifiers ...

David Gay dgay42 at gmail.com
Fri Jul 18 09:09:28 PDT 2008


On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 8:31 AM, Aurélien Francillon
<aurelien.francillon at inrialpes.fr> wrote:
> - support is there in some makefiles (at least avr.rules and msp.rules)
> to use "__" instead, this works very well for me since a few months
> without problems,
> - is it compliant with the C standard ?
> - is see no drawback ? Is there any ? Well, it probably breaks if
> someone is using "__" in a variable name or module name in a .nc file.
> Could nesc check for this and display a nice informative message ?

It already does (give it a try ;)) - as Vlado said we'll be switching
to that post 2.1. You can switch now by just editing the X.rules file.

David Gay



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