From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Aug 22 19:14:10 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA04388 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 19:14:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp04.primenet.com (smtp04.primenet.com [206.165.6.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA04383 for ; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 19:14:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr04.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp04.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA19235; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 19:13:25 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr04.primenet.com(206.165.6.204) via SMTP by smtp04.primenet.com, id smtpd019219; Sat Aug 22 19:13:22 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr04.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id TAA18985; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 19:13:20 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199808230213.TAA18985@usr04.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Realloc fix for review To: joelh@gnu.org Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1998 02:13:19 +0000 (GMT) Cc: Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199808212258.RAA00602@detlev.UUCP> from "Joel Ray Holveck" at Aug 21, 98 05:58:55 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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