From owner-cvs-all Fri Jan 28 15:11:24 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED46D14E1A; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 15:11:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id AAE531C4A; Fri, 28 Jan 2000 18:11:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2000 18:11:19 -0500 From: Bill Fumerola To: Chris Costello Cc: Brian Fundakowski Feldman , Bruce Evans , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen Makefile.inc Message-ID: <20000128181119.J31717@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <200001280714.XAA38397@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000128164403.H31717@jade.chc-chimes.com> <20000128170057.I385@holly.calldei.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000128170057.I385@holly.calldei.com>; from chris@calldei.com on Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 05:00:57PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.2-RELEASE i386 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Fri, Jan 28, 2000 at 05:00:57PM -0600, Chris Costello wrote: > > I thought I read somewhere that str*() functions were reserved, so wouldn't > > we be replacing non-standard function names with standard-breaking functions? > > > > Of course, I could just be remembering wrong, in which case 10 people will > > flame me. > > I believe you're correct if I understand what you're saying. > Rolling our own functions beginning with str is namespace > pollution (and also has potential to clash with a function of the > same name in ANSI C). That's my original point. Others have disagreed. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect Computer Horizons Corp - CVM e-mail: billf@chc-chimes.com / billf@FreeBSD.org Office: 800-252-2421 x128 / Cell: 248-761-7272 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message