Excerpts from Magnus Hagander's message of jue dic 30 08:57:09 -0300 2010:
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 20:12, Alvaro Herrera
> <alvherre@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> > Some lexer keywords have a _P prefix because otherwise they'd collide
> > with some symbol in Windows header files or something like that. It's
> > old stuff, but I think you, Magnus, were around at that time.
>
> Heh. That doesn't mean I *remember* it :-)
:-)
> But yes, I see in commit 12c942383296bd626131241c012c2ab81b081738 the
> comment "convert some keywords.c symbols to KEYWORD_P to prevent
> conflict".
Wow, what a mess of a patch ... nowadays this would be like 10 commits
(or so I hope) ... hey, did Bruce sabotage the qnx4 port surreptitiously?
> Based on that, I should probably change it back, right? I just tried a
> patch for it and it compiles and checks just fine with the _P parts
> removed.
Hmm, I wouldn't bother really. It's not that important anyway, IMHO.
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