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Re: __* in installed headers
- To: drepper@cygnus.com (Ulrich Drepper)
- Subject: Re: __* in installed headers
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
- Date: 06 Aug 1998 18:29:02 +0200
- Cc: libc-hacker@cygnus.com
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- References: <r290l29mv5.fsf@happy.cygnus.com>
>>>>> Ulrich Drepper writes:
> Hi,
> Does anybody see a reason why we shouldn't get rid of the __*
> prototypes in the official headers? The reason is that I found more
> and more cases where people think they should use these functions
> since they are documented. Of course this will break now that these
> functions are not exported anymore. [And compiling will be faster
> since fewer symbols have to be kept.]
> The solution I have in mind is to move over the __* prototypes to the
> headers in include/ and make sure we search while compiling glibc
> always there first.
> Comments?
Please go for it. The installed headers should reflect the exported
interface - and not more.
Andreas
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