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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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