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by heywhatupboys 1256 days ago
_t is even a "reserved" suffix in C. Stop using it. If you want compile-time type safety, pick another language like Haskell. A "typedef" is by no means a contract declaration in C.
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mh7 1256 days ago
No it is not reserved, it's just posix's personal style guides. There's just as much of a name clash possibility when not using _t because lots of other libraries and platforms uses some other convention.

Only ISO C can reserve things, no one else, and ISO C does not reserve the _t suffix.

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heywhatupboys 1255 days ago
I think it is pedantic to say that POSIX's guidance is not the de-facto C standard, or at least that the union of rules between ISO and POSIX
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