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Date:      Fri, 28 Jan 2000 17:42:29 -0500 (EST)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libc/gen Makefile.inc
Message-ID:  <200001282242.RAA26199@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20000128164403.H31717@jade.chc-chimes.com>
References:  <200001280714.XAA38397@freefall.freebsd.org> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0001281625270.41316-100000@green.dyndns.org> <20000128164403.H31717@jade.chc-chimes.com>

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<<On Fri, 28 Jan 2000 16:44:04 -0500, Bill Fumerola <billf@chc-chimes.com> said:

> I thought I read somewhere that str*() functions were reserved, so wouldn't
> we be replacing non-standard function names with standard-breaking functions?

No.  We would be replacing namespace-polluting names for non-standard
functions with non-namespace-polluting names for non-standard
functions.

I agree that `strflags' in an unfortunate choice of name --
particularly for a function which is prototyped in a commonly-included
header file.

-GAWollman



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