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>Suppose the name of the library's entry point function is computed >from the module name (not the library name). I'm not convinced that >modules are renamed often enough that this is a problem. Any errors >will be caught early (since you can't use the library at all), and are >easy to fix. I am interested in hearing even anecdotal evidence that renaming is frequent and troublesome. But I don't think it's worth doing for cleanliness alone. I've had a decent amount of experience trying to manage system-dependent code (I maintained Emacs for three years), and the cute tricks rarely pay off, because you always end up providing non-cute code anyway. Someone contributes it for some random system; it works; how can you say no?