Re: Prefixing C function names with ‘_’

[Richard Stallman]

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In regard to
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-standards/2017-04/msg00000.html:

    I think this is bad advice because both POSIX and glibc reserve names
    starting with an ‘_’.  Quoth
    <[7]https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Reserved-Names.html>:

The spirit of this rule is that names starting with _ are reserved
for system libraries.

GNU libraries are system libraries, so they should use _ for their
internal names.  The developers should avoid real conflicts on GNU,
and on non-GNU systems that they choose to support.  That includes
coordinating with the libc developers when that is useful.

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