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Re: [PATCH] time: enforce recent POSIX ruling that time_t is integral


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: [PATCH] time: enforce recent POSIX ruling that time_t is integral
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 14:02:39 -0700
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Bruno Haible wrote:

> But why use __ as prefix? Symbols starting with __ are, generally speaking,
> in the territory of the implementation (libc + compiler), which is why gnulib
> tries to use only symbols that start with a single _.

But this symbol will appear in <time.h>, so it has both flavors: from
gnulib's point of view it is a user symbol, but from the gnulib-using
application's point of view it appears in a Standard C header.  I can
see both points of view and am not sure which should prevail.



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