Re: built-in function 'exp' declared as non-function

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Yes I got it. Now what will be the standard next move, what  set of
idents will become unavailable. ...

On Thu, Apr 11, 2019 at 7:06 PM Jonathan Wakely <jwakely.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 at 18:01, phi gcc <phi.gcc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Builtin symbols should be namespaced
> > __exp()
> >
> > and he one who want the builtin short named could (and I guess the
> > include math.h) can do that.
> >
> > #define exp __exp
> >
> > There is no problem of renaming it because as a user you will never
> > set a BP into the builtin.
> >
> > With the reversed logic, compilers (or normalisation I guess)
> > despotically pick a stdlib function name, decide it become a builtin,
>
> No, the language standard picked the name, and reserves "exp" as an
> identifier with external linkage if you use any stdlib entity. So
> defining another entity with that name and external linkage has
> undefined behaviour.



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