From: Matt Ullman <staticfox@staticfox.net>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] lib: Make strreplace prototype compatible with C++
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 15:38:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160617193856.GA25433@staticfox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57644395.9010505@infradead.org>
On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:38:13AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> I didn't see and could not find any reply to v1. Who is that comment
> addressed to? Linus?
Yes, this was addressed to Linus. He CC'd the mailing list, but I could not
find it either. Here is what he wrote:
> Please only change the prototype, not the function. Might as well remove
> the argument names in the prototype.
>
> Let's not make the C code uglier for no reason. The fact that C++ screwed
> up and thought that "new" can't be used as a variable name is no reason not
> to do it in C code.
>
> Similarly, we don't make C code use the insane C++ pointer caring rules.
>
> Linus
-- Matt Ullman
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-17 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2016-06-17 17:24 ` [PATCH v2] lib: Make strreplace prototype compatible with C++ Matt Ullman
2016-06-17 18:38 ` Randy Dunlap
2016-06-17 19:38 ` Matt Ullman [this message]
2016-06-17 19:54 ` Joe Perches
2016-06-17 20:25 ` Matt Ullman
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