Re: Prefixing C function names with ‘_’

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > GNU libraries are system libraries, so they should use _ for their
  > > internal names.  The developers should avoid real conflicts on GNU,
  > > and on non-GNU systems that they choose to support.  That includes
  > > coordinating with the libc developers when that is useful.

  > To me the only “system library” in this specific sense would be libc.

We disagree there.

  > Concretely, there’s no discussion taking place between developers
  > GnuTLS, libguile, or the GNU Scientific Library and libc people before
  > picking a symbol.

That is a good point -- they ought to coordinate about this.


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