Re: RFC: rename allocsa to malloca, freesa to freea

[Bruno Haible]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> > I propose to rename the functions and their modules:
> >
> >   allocsa -> malloca
> >   freesa -> freea
> >   xallocsa -> xmalloca
> 
> Sounds good to me.
> 
> > Have there been proposals to add functions/macros with these semantics
> > to POSIX?
> 
> Not as far as I know.

OK, I've done the renaming. NEWS entry:


Date        Modules         Changes

2007-06-09  xallocsa        Renamed to xmalloca. The include file "xallocsa.h"
                            was remamed to "xmalloca.h". The function was
                            renamed:
                              xallocsa -> xmalloca

2007-06-09  allocsa         Renamed to malloca. The include file "allocsa.h"
                            was remamed to "malloca.h". The function-like
                            macros were renamed:
                              allocsa -> malloca
                              freesa -> freea


2007-06-09  Bruno Haible  <address@hidden>

        Rename 'allocsa' -> 'malloca', 'freesa' -> 'freea'.
        * modules/malloca: Renamed from modules/allocsa, updated.
        * lib/malloca.h: Renamed from lib/allocsa.h, updated.
        * lib/malloca.c: Renamed from lib/allocsa.c, updated.
        * lib/malloca.valgrind: Renamed from lib/allocsa.valgrind, updated.
        * m4/malloca.m4: Renamed from m4/allocsa.m4, updated.
        * modules/malloca-tests: Renamed from modules/allocsa-tests, updated.
        * tests/test-malloca.c: Renamed from tests/test-allocsa.c, updated.
        * modules/xmalloca: Renamed from modules/xallocsa, updated.
        * lib/xmalloca.h: Renamed from lib/xallocsa.h, updated.
        * lib/xmalloca.c: Renamed from lib/xallocsa.c, updated.
        * modules/c-strcasestr (Depends-on): Update.
        * lib/c-strcasestr.c: Update.
        * modules/c-strstr (Depends-on): Update.
        * lib/c-strstr.c: Update.
        * modules/canonicalize-lgpl (Depends-on): Update.
        * lib/canonicalize-lgpl.c: Update.
        * modules/clean-temp (Depends-on): Update.
        * lib/clean-temp.c: Update.
        * modules/csharpcomp (Depends-on): Update.
        * lib/csharpcomp.c: Update.
        * modules/csharpexec (Depends-on): Update.
        * lib/csharpexec.c: Update.
        * modules/javacomp (Depends-on): Update.
        * lib/javacomp.c: Update.
        * modules/javaexec (Depends-on): Update.
        * lib/javaexec.c: Update.
        * modules/mbscasestr (Depends-on): Update.
        * lib/mbscasestr.c: Update.
        * modules/mbsstr (Depends-on): Update.
        * lib/mbsstr.c: Update.
        * modules/setenv (Depends-on): Update.
        * lib/setenv.c: Update.
        * modules/strcasestr (Depends-on): Update.
        * lib/strcasestr.c: Update.
        * modules/striconveha (Depends-on): Update.
        * lib/striconveha.c: Update.
        * modules/relocatable-prog-wrapper (Files): Update.
        * lib/relocwrapper.c: Update.