[cfe-dev] Keyword warnings in libc++'s type_traits and other headers

[M.E. O'Neill]

Marshall Clow <mclow.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> It’s also non-conforming.
> 
> The user is perfectly within his rights to use _llvm_libcxx_x as an identifier or macro name (something like)
> 
> 	#define _llvm_libcxx_x(x) do { if (x) {}} while(false);
> 	#include <type_traits>
> 
> 	int main () { _llvm_libcxx_x(true); }
> 
> This would fail to compile, and a user who wrote this could file a defect report against libc++ (and they would be correct!)

My point was just that using a prefix was safer than using a common word or phrase without a prefix and somehow imagining that using a double underscore will insulate you from name clashes.  I don't have a problem with using __llvm_cxx_blah, _LLVM_CXX_blah, llvm_cxx__blah or just _Lblah (the last of which takes no more space than __blah if that's really a concern).

What I'd like to see is a way to avoid everyone writing a "system library" thinking they're free to use _Thread, __block, __is_pod or similar.  Ideally, I'd like a way that is somewhat robust in the face of future C/C++/Objective-C language extensions.

    M.E.O.

P.S.  FWIW, this stack overflow post has good links to the rules about reserved identifiers in various standards (C++, C and POSIX): http://stackoverflow.com/a/228797