Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 02:13:19 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: joelh@gnu.org Cc: Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Realloc fix for review Message-ID: <199808230213.TAA18985@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199808212258.RAA00602@detlev.UUCP> from "Joel Ray Holveck" at Aug 21, 98 05:58:55 pm
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> > I'd worry about causing name space pollution. You might break someone > > else's code who has their own function called frealloc ... > > Isn't that what weak symbols in libc are for? They don't work as expected; there are bugs, both in the standard ld, and in ld.so, that prevent weak symbols from working as expected; this is the reason that the __error stuff happened at all... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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