This option controls whether the specified name is treated as a keyword or as an identifier whenever it appears in your program source.
>>- -q--+-keyword---+--=--keyword_name------------------------->< '-nokeyword-'
By default all the built-in keywords defined in the C and C++ language standards are reserved as keywords. You cannot add keywords to the language with this option. However, you can use -qnokeyword=keyword_name to disable built-in keywords, and use -qkeyword=keyword_name to reinstate those keywords.
This option can be used with all C++ built-in keywords.
This option can also be used with the following C keywords:
You can reinstate bool with the following invocation:
xlc++ -qkeyword=bool
You can reinstate typeof with the following invocation:
xlc -qkeyword=typeof
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