Re: [Sdcc-user] Another compiler glitch: Is 'data' a pre-definedkeyword?

[Gordon H. <gor...@dr...>]

On Mon, 16 Nov 2009, Jan Waclawek wrote:

> This is a well-documented feature, see e.g.: 
> http://sdcc.sourceforge.net/doc/sdccman.html/node182.html
>
> "Certain words that are valid identifiers in the standard may be 
> reserved words in SDCC unless the --std-c89 or --std-c99 command line 
> options are used. These may include (depending on the selected 
> processor): [...] 'data' [...]. Compliant equivalents of these keywords 
> are always available in a form that begin with two underscores, f.e. 
> '__data' instead of 'data'."

Yea, well... Geeks like me who've been programming in C for the past 29 
years know everything and rarely read manuals...

... until we shoot ourselves in the foot and post questions with 
embarassingly easy RTFM type answers ;-)

Thanks,

Gordon