[PATCH 2/2] ctype: use less short names in public header

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Nov  8 20:24, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> We're seeing a build failure in GNU sim code which is using _P locally
> but the ctype.h define clashes with it.  Rename these to use the same
> symbols that glibc does.  They're a bit more verbose, but seems likely
> that we'll have fewer conflicts if glibc isn't seeing them.
                                     ^^^^^
Mixing newlib and glibc?  That's just a typo, I guess?

> However, these shortnames are still used internally by ctype modules
> to produce pretty concise source code, so use _COMPILING_NEWLIB to
> keep them around when compiling newlib itself where we have better
> control over short name conflicts.

Hmm.  I'm not sure we should really maintain two different sets of
symbols.  I think it would be better to go the entire way and replace
the single letter symbols with the new, more speaking ones throughout.
There are not that many affected files and the change might be done with
sed mostly.

The only exceptions *could* be libc/ctype/ctype_.c and the local
ctype_iso.h and ctype_cp.h headers it includes.  A local definition
of the single letter symbols in ctype_.c would be sufficient then.
But even there we might be better off with the new symbols in the long
run...


Corinna