On 06/15/2014 06:53 PM, Bruce Korb wrote: > I still think that "implementations" need an unambiguously distinct > name space. *_MAX is too greedy.
It actually turns out that POSIX has reserved the _MIN and _MAX suffixes for <limits.h> as stated in POSIX 2008 `2.2.2 The Name Space'. It has a nice table with all the POSIX namespace rules that you can view online: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/V2_chap02.html#tag_15_02_02