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Re: Namespace pollution in strings.h



On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 08:57:10PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> I don't understand why they define functions in first place and not just
> map it via macros to the builtins...

They do both (within some ifdefs that might misfire in my case, not
sure), but additionally our prototype mismatches (returns unsigned,
sanely, vs gcc builtin which returns int moroneously).

Martin


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