[Ffmpeg-devel] [PATCH] near is a special keyword

[Mike Melanson]

Benjamin Larsson wrote:
> Steve Lhomme wrote:
> [...]
> 
>> Too bad, that keyword existed before Linux was even started.
>>
> I could only find this site refering to near keyword usage.
> 
> http://www.phim.unibe.ch/comp_doc/c_manual/C/SYNTAX/keywords.html
> 
> even a m$ page doesn't list near as a keyword.
> 
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vccelng/htm/eleme_5.asp 

	'near' strikes me as rather platform-specific, recalling the days of 
the MS-DOS memory models (tiny, small, medium, large, huge, etc.).

-- 
	-Mike Melanson