Re: Small changes to facilitate Win32 port

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Dann Corbit" <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Small changes to facilitate Win32 port
Date: 2002-05-30 22:40:40
Message-ID: 8385.1022798440@sss.pgh.pa.us
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"Dann Corbit" <DCorbit(at)connx(dot)com> writes:
>> I'm tempted to suggest that we should stick _P on *all* the
>> lexer token
>> symbols, rather than having an inconsistent set of names where some of
>> them have _P and some do not. Or perhaps _T (for token)
>> would be a more
>> sensible convention; I'm not sure why _P was used in the first place.

> Before you do that, realize that you are violating the implementation's
> namespace, and your code is therefore not legal ANSI/ISO C.

What?

The _P or _T is a suffix, not a prefix...

regards, tom lane

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