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Re: [0/2] Inspect extra signal information
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 19:37:25, Pedro Alves wrote:
> > is free to change the symbol it uses for this any time, and use the
> > __uid_t one for something utterly incompatible. ?Since the name begins
> > with 2 underscores, the library implementation doesn't need to bother
> > being back-compatible, because such names are off-limits for user code.
>
> No, it is allowed to assume that the type name will not collide with
> any user defined type. ?It's only about namespace, that's all. ?Things will
> surelly break if the type changes to something else incompatible.
Oh well, I think I said the same thing you did anyway. :-)
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Pedro Alves