RE: [ft-devel] "comp" is reserved word in Apple SC compiler?

[Steven Johnson]

> When I replace the variable "comp" by "compo", SC does not 
> complains anymore. I grepped MPW's header files and the 
> output by SC's cpp, but I couldn't find any part which 
> defines "comp" for their own use.

IIRC, "comp" was a long integer type (64 bits? 96 bits?) that was actually 
implemented using floating-point math. (No, I have no idea what "comp" 
indicated.) 

It's the only compiler I'm aware of that had such a reserved word.

I think that compiler also had "extended" as a reserved word (as a 96-bit 
floating point type, to match Motorola hardware of the time).