http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=51437
--- Comment #12 from Josh Triplett <josh at joshtriplett dot org> 2012-02-19 18:50:34 UTC --- (In reply to comment #10) > (In reply to comment #9) > > However, note that the standards also reserve various other classes of > > names, > > such as types ending in _t, for which GCC should only flag definitions, not > > uses. Only system headers should define new _t types, but user code can > > *use* > > types like time_t or pid_t without warning. > > These are only reserved for POSIX, and should not always be warned about! I stand corrected. I thought that the C standard reserved types with a _t suffix, but I just re-checked the C99 and C11 specs and they don't have that reservation, only some more specific reservations such as the others I mentioned.