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Edit | Post #290314 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
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What is the purpose of having underscored names and then defining a non-underscored alias to it? In a C implementation in `` on Linux I saw something like: ``` extern FILE stdinp; extern FILE stdoutp; extern FILE stderrp; ``` And then: ``` #define stdin stdinp #define stdout stdoutp #define stderr stderrp ``` My question is, for what reason would an implementation provide the `name` ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |