__* in installed headers

[Andreas Jaeger]

>>>>> 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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