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<h3 class="section">6.33 Dollar Signs in Identifier Names</h3>

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In GNU C, you may normally use dollar signs in identifier names. 
This is because many traditional C implementations allow such identifiers. 
However, dollar signs in identifiers are not supported on a few target
machines, typically because the target assembler does not allow them.

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