__* in installed headers

Ulrich Drepper drepper@cygnus.com
Mon Aug 10 00:24:00 GMT 1998


Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com> writes:

> Also, your suggestion in particular makes me uncomfortable.  I don't like
> the idea of <stdlib.h> in libc sources not getting the same <stdlib.h> that
> users get.  Just seems like asking for trouble when some obscure bug slips
> quietly by.

I don't see how.  The stdlib.h used at compile time is only a superset
with some more prototypes.  And problems with not matching prototypes
are mostly caught by the compiler since at least for C sources it can
analyzy the prototype.

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