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From: James Antill <james@and.org>
To: wichert@cistron.nl (Wichert Akkerman)
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ide cleanup
Date: 08 Feb 2002 18:00:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <nnit97a8ah.fsf@code.and.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020206205332.GA3217@elf.ucw.cz> <3C63C5EF.4050403@evision-ventures.com> <20020208133755.A10250@suse.cz> <3C63CF54.9090308@evision-ventures.com> <a40okb$mds$1@picard.cistron.nl>
In-Reply-To: <a40okb$mds$1@picard.cistron.nl>

wichert@cistron.nl (Wichert Akkerman) writes:

> In article <3C63CF54.9090308@evision-ventures.com>,
> Martin Dalecki  <dalecki@evision-ventures.com> wrote:
> >The _t at the end of type names is a POSIX habit of markup for system 
> >defined types - this should *NOT* be used in user land programms but is OK for
> >the kernel.
> 
> Why, I don't see that. Everyone should use whatever notation he/she
> feels most comfortable with.

 Err, what?
 Sure mindless programmers can call a function strnew() or strconcat()
if they "feel most comfortable" with that. But it's _wrong_, as that's
a reserved namespace of ISO C. Jut as *_t is a reserved namespace of
POSIX.

 Opengroup seems really slow atm., but hopefully you'll believe one of...

http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2000-09/msg00185.html
http://www.ioccc.org/1998/data

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# James Antill -- james@and.org
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-02-08 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-06 20:53 ide cleanup Pavel Machek
2002-02-07  3:34 ` Andre Hedrick
2002-02-07  7:29   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-02-07 12:40   ` Pavel Machek
2002-02-08 12:34 ` Martin Dalecki
2002-02-08 12:37   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-02-08 13:15     ` Martin Dalecki
2002-02-08 14:50       ` Wichert Akkerman
2002-02-08 15:08         ` Dave Jones
2002-02-08 15:09           ` Wichert Akkerman
2002-02-08 15:08         ` Martin Dalecki
2002-02-08 23:00         ` James Antill [this message]
2002-02-08 22:10       ` Pavel Machek
2002-02-09 18:19 ` Bill Davidsen
2002-02-09 18:35   ` Vojtech Pavlik
2002-02-11 19:15     ` Bill Davidsen
2002-02-12 10:00       ` Pavel Machek

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