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Re: Gnumach kern/strings.h


From: Thomas Bushnell BSG
Subject: Re: Gnumach kern/strings.h
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 09:33:31 -0800

On Tue, 2006-11-07 at 10:26 +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Claudio Fontana, le Mon 06 Nov 2006 19:14:04 -0800, a écrit :
> > is this to be the regular header that application developers include
> > under your system to see all standard string functions declared?
> 
> Nope, that's only for kernel use, but I'd say it should follow C
> standard, so that people are not lost.
> (imagine a documentation saying "#include <strings.h> instead of
> <string.h>, and <printf.h> instead of <stdio.h>, and...".

It would be wise to make the strings header have the same name.

However, <printf.h> could actually be a better name for that one,
because it is *not* stdio or anything near it, and it's important to
flag such things.

Thomas

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