[PATCH 8/9] posix: Use enum for __glob_pattern_type result

Adhemerval Zanella adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org
Wed Sep 6 16:54:00 GMT 2017



On 06/09/2017 13:18, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
>> My understanding was double underscore identifiers are reserved for implementation
>> (C99 7.1.3 Reserved identifiers).
> 
> Yes, and that's the point. When this code is used as part of Gnulib, it is used within an application, so any identifiers it uses that start with __ might collide with the implementation, which means it's safer to avoid them when it's easy, as is the case here.

Right, I got your point.



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