Re: strsuftoi(3), strsuftou(3) proposal in libc

[Kamil Rytarowski <n54%gmx.com@localhost>]

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On 02.11.2015 02:49, Mouse wrote:
>> It's already done - libnbcompat in pkgsrc.  Just write your
>> program with NetBSD libc API and use libnbcompat for whatever
>> POSIX-like platform.  This is how I'm doing it - no big magic.
> 
> Speaking as a code author, the headaches of that approach occur
> when some well-meaning soul adds yet another function to libc - and
> it happens to collide with a function in your program, a function
> that used to be in user namespace.  I've got a program in which I
> had to rename heapsort to heap_sort, I think it was, because of
> that.
> 

This is valid argument... but it may happen in every programming
language and library. A friend of mine had to rename 'enum' in his
Java code, because it was added to the language as a reserved keyword.
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