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Re: Prefixing C function names with ???_???
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John Darrington |
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Re: Prefixing C function names with ???_??? |
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Mon, 25 Sep 2017 10:29:51 +0200 |
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On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 09:19:21AM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
To me the only ???system library??? in this specific sense would be libc.
Concretely, there???s no discussion taking place between developers
GnuTLS, libguile, or the GNU Scientific Library and libc people before
picking a symbol.
I believe libc developers consider that *they* can pick one of these
reserved names (a famous example is names starting with capital E, which
has caused problems with applications defining ???ED???, which libc already
defines to entertaining purposes. :-))
Even more famous is cairo who decided to suffix their types with _t which of
course is reserved by POSIX.
J'
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