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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
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"Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> There are at least two solutions:
>
>   (a) Treat malloc & company as an exception: always call them by
>       their un-adorned name from within libc.
>
>   (b) Let these specialized applications override the adorned names
>       instead.  There is probably already code within these ports to
>       deal with underscore-prefixed names.
>
> I don't really have a preference for either solution.

I have a strong preference for (b)...  in case anyone cares :)

DES
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