<html lang="en"> <head> <title>Dollar Signs - Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html"> <meta name="description" content="Using the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC)"> <meta name="generator" content="makeinfo 4.13"> <link title="Top" rel="start" href="index.html#Top"> <link rel="up" href="C-Extensions.html#C-Extensions" title="C Extensions"> <link rel="prev" href="C_002b_002b-Comments.html#C_002b_002b-Comments" title="C++ Comments"> <link rel="next" href="Character-Escapes.html#Character-Escapes" title="Character Escapes"> <link href="http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/" rel="generator-home" title="Texinfo Homepage"> <!-- Copyright (C) 1988-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with the Invariant Sections being ``Funding Free Software'', the Front-Cover Texts being (a) (see below), and with the Back-Cover Texts being (b) (see below). A copy of the license is included in the section entitled ``GNU Free Documentation License''. (a) The FSF's Front-Cover Text is: A GNU Manual (b) The FSF's Back-Cover Text is: You have freedom to copy and modify this GNU Manual, like GNU software. Copies published by the Free Software Foundation raise funds for GNU development.--> <meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css"> <style type="text/css"><!-- pre.display { font-family:inherit } pre.format { font-family:inherit } pre.smalldisplay { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallformat { font-family:inherit; font-size:smaller } pre.smallexample { font-size:smaller } pre.smalllisp { font-size:smaller } span.sc { font-variant:small-caps } span.roman { font-family:serif; font-weight:normal; } span.sansserif { font-family:sans-serif; font-weight:normal; } --></style> </head> <body> <div class="node"> <a name="Dollar-Signs"></a> <p> Next: <a rel="next" accesskey="n" href="Character-Escapes.html#Character-Escapes">Character Escapes</a>, Previous: <a rel="previous" accesskey="p" href="C_002b_002b-Comments.html#C_002b_002b-Comments">C++ Comments</a>, Up: <a rel="up" accesskey="u" href="C-Extensions.html#C-Extensions">C Extensions</a> <hr> </div> <h3 class="section">6.36 Dollar Signs in Identifier Names</h3> <p><a name="index-g_t_0024-3319"></a><a name="index-dollar-signs-in-identifier-names-3320"></a><a name="index-identifier-names_002c-dollar-signs-in-3321"></a> 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. </body></html>