[Bug-readline] Re: [bug-inetutils] inetutils-1.8: ftp build error

[Mike Frysinger]

On Sunday, July 25, 2010 17:18:02 Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 7/25/10 2:36 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > why do you need to use those function names ?  using a name spaced
> > function like rl_malloc or _rl_malloc would keep the same functionality
> > without clashing with other people.
> 
> No, it wouldn't.  It would not allow, for instance, an application to
> control all the memory allocation and management readline performs.

why not ?  the symbols would still be exported and overridable by end users.  
it would simply be using a namespace already reserved for readline.

> > "xmalloc" is a pretty common name for people to
> > use in their own projects and i dont think people even realize that
> > readline is doing this.  i know i wasnt aware of it and have used
> > readline along with xmalloc in my application before.
> 
> Exactly.  You can override readline's use of xmalloc easily -- almost
> without effort.

except i dont want that behavior
-mike

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