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Re: Summary of the "Use __unused0" discussion.

From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:25:07 -0800
Subject: Re: Summary of the "Use __unused0" discussion.
References: <4F2C5A65.2070301@mentor.com> <20120203221227.404162C086@topped-with-meat.com>

On 02/03/2012 02:12 PM, Roland McGrath wrote:
> __reservedN seems like a decent
> convention off hand.

But then BSD someday might use __reserved1 for something else.
We should put "gnu" somewhere in the prefix; that will substantially
lessen the possibility of future collisions.  Surely BSD coders
will never put "gnu" in their own prefixes.

Here's a suggestion.
Let's switch the prefix from "__unused" to "__ungnused".
This makes the point perfectly!

References:
- Summary of the "Use __unused0" discussion.
  - From: Carlos O'Donell
- Re: Summary of the "Use __unused0" discussion.
  - From: Roland McGrath

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