can any one tell me stream is a reserved keyword in c or c++; [closed]

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I am using a function pointer variable named as "stream. SO i think it might create errors if it is a reserved keyword in c or c++. Thanks in advance.

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No, stream is not a keyword in either C or C++. See the accepted answer to Why is "array" marked as a reserved word in Visual-C++?

However, as pointed out by @pmg, this is not the whole story. Identifiers starting with str followed by a lowercase letter are reserved by the C standard for additional string functions. The gcc manual provides a handy list of identifiers to be avoided.

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As other answers say stream is not a keyword.

However it IS technically a reserved identifier - all identifiers starting with str followed by a lower case letter are reserved for future additions to string.h

So in theory there's a possibility that a future version of C could introduce a standard function called stream and thus break your code. However the actual chance of that happening is probably tiny.