[ale] One for the language lawyers ...

[JK]

A little googling turned up this on the difference between __FUNCTION__
and __func__ (note: NOT "__funct__"):

http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2004/n1642.html

Google had nothing on "__funct__". Basically, __func__ is effectively
an identifier for a statically-allocated char[] (created via compiler
magic whenever __func__ is used), whereas __FUNCTION__ is just a macro.
It appears that neither are currently part of the C++ standard, though
I'm very likely to be wrong -- didn't follow the links very far.

-- JK

John Mills wrote:
> ALErs -
> 
> What are the differences in use and availability for these two tokens in C 
> and C++:
> 
>    __funct__
> 
>    __FUNCTION__
> 
> as in:
>     printf("Bad arg received at %s\n", __FUNCTION__);
> 
> Both seem to be accepted and work similarly in my gcc-3.x and -4.x 'C'
> environments, but I would like to know their relative hazards in code for 
> multiple processor types.
> 
> TIA.
> 
>   - Mills
> 
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