From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>,
libc-alpha@sourceware.org, Gnulib bugs <bug-gnulib@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] posix: Use enum for __glob_pattern_type result
Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2017 16:18:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cc08cef9-1d77-77e3-7872-0ba48ff809dc@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b9d8dfbe-7258-8b66-844f-eb3f9197751a@linaro.org>
Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> My understanding was double underscore identifiers are reserved for implementation
> (C99 7.1.3 Reserved identifiers).
Yes, and that's the point. When this code is used as part of Gnulib, it is used
within an application, so any identifiers it uses that start with __ might
collide with the implementation, which means it's safer to avoid them when it's
easy, as is the case here.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-06 16:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-05 20:25 [PATCH 0/9] posix: glob fixes and refactor Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-05 20:25 ` [PATCH 9/9] posix: Fix glob with GLOB_NOCHECK returning modified patterns (BZ#10246) Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-07 22:14 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-08 9:16 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-05 20:25 ` [PATCH 4/9] Sync scratch_buffer with gnulib Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-18 6:09 ` Florian Weimer
2017-09-18 11:43 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-18 11:57 ` Florian Weimer
2017-09-18 12:25 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-05 20:25 ` [PATCH 1/9] posix: Sync glob with gnulib [BZ #1062] Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-06 2:01 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-06 12:52 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-12 14:20 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-12 17:06 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-05 20:25 ` [PATCH 7/9] posix: Consolidate glob implementation Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-12 7:35 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-12 14:08 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-12 14:17 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-12 14:29 ` Joseph Myers
2017-09-12 14:39 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-12 14:50 ` Joseph Myers
2017-09-12 12:56 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-12 14:22 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-12 14:34 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-13 12:26 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-05 20:25 ` [PATCH 2/9] posix: accept inode 0 is a valid inode number (BZ #19971) Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-05 20:25 ` [PATCH 8/9] posix: Use enum for __glob_pattern_type result Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-06 1:30 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-06 4:18 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-06 13:04 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-06 16:18 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2017-09-06 16:54 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-05 20:25 ` [PATCH 5/9] posix: Fix getpwnam_r usage (BZ #1062) Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-05 20:25 ` [PATCH 3/9] posix: Allow glob to match dangling symlinks [BZ #866] Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-06 1:27 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-06 12:57 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-09 9:50 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-09 11:56 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-09 17:02 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-09 17:11 ` Zack Weinberg
2017-09-09 17:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-09-09 17:33 ` Zack Weinberg
2017-09-10 8:19 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-10 17:13 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-11 14:34 ` Joseph Myers
2017-09-11 14:38 ` Zack Weinberg
2017-09-11 16:53 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-11 17:25 ` Zack Weinberg
2017-09-11 17:38 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-11 17:56 ` Zack Weinberg
2017-09-11 18:03 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-11 20:09 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-13 9:14 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-13 12:22 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-14 10:05 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2017-09-14 13:43 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-15 20:18 ` Florian Weimer
2017-09-15 20:27 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-17 7:16 ` Paul Eggert
2017-09-17 7:48 ` Florian Weimer
2017-09-17 14:18 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2017-09-05 20:25 ` [PATCH 6/9] posix: fix glob bugs with long login names Adhemerval Zanella
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