Strange tip from an e-book about C programming

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I'm reading "C for Programmers with an Introduction to C11" by Paul and Harvey Deitel and I've come across this strange tip:

Error-Prevention Tip 2.1

Avoid starting identifiers with the underscore character (_) to prevent conflicts with compiler-generated identifiers and standard library identifiers.

What does it mean?

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