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Date:      Wed, 30 Apr 2003 12:38:20 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        src-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen check_utility_compat.c confstr.c un-namespace.hgethostbydns.c getnameinfo.c hesiod.c ...
Message-ID:  <200304301638.h3UGcKMg050997@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030430152708.GA26216@madman.celabo.org>
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<<On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 10:27:08 -0500, "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> said:

> We have no business exporting symbols from libc that are not described
> by any standard.

The standard says that we have a right to define any global symbol we
want that begins with the letters `str'.

-GAWollman



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