Re: Policy for obsolete funcitons

[Andrea Corallo]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>
>> Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2023 13:18:56 -0400
>> 
>> doing some maintanance in the native compiler I'd like to rename some
>> function and possibly remove some other.
>> 
>> What's the policy for renaming o removing functions which never meant to
>> be used as public interfaces (assuming this last bit makes any
>> difference)?
>> 
>> Can we just do it or we need to obsolete the one we want to remove and
>> alias the ones that gets renamed?
>
> If the function had a "--" in its name, it is an internal one and can
> be renamed.  Otherwise, we need to add an obsolete alias with the old
> name.

Can't we use the argument that the entry points for the native compiler
are designed to be only the one we named native-*?

Thanks

  Andrea