The ANSI C standard specifies exactly what identifiers in the normal name space are declared by the standard header files. A compiler is not free to declare additional identifiers in a header file unless the identifiers follow defined rules (the identifier must begin with an underscore followed by an uppercase letter or another underscore). When you compile with VSI C using any values of /STANDARD that set strict C standard conformance (ANSI89, MIA, C99, and LATEST), versions of the standard header files are included that hide many identifiers that do not follow the rules. The header file <stdio.h>, for example, hides the definition of the macro TRUE. The compiler accomplishes this by predefining the macro __HIDE_FORBIDDEN_NAMES for the above-mentioned /STANDARD values. You can use the command line qualifier /UNDEFINE="__HIDE_FORBIDDEN_NAMES" to prevent the compiler from predefining this macro, thus including macro definitions of the forbidden names. The header files are modified to only define additional VAX C names if __HIDE_FORBIDDEN_NAMES is undefined. For example, <stdio.h> might contain the following: #ifndef __HIDE_FORBIDDEN_NAMES #define TRUE 1 #endif