Re: 31-fyi-m4-symbol-lookup-t.patch

[Gary V. Vaughan]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 09:16:04AM +0200, Akim Demaille wrote:
> Otherwise I have conflicts with the names I'm introducing, and it
> makes my life harder.
> 
> Index: ChangeLog
> from  Akim Demaille  <address@hidden>
> 
>       * m4/m4module.h (m4_symbol_lookup): Rename as...
>       (m4_symbol_lookup_t): this.

/^.*_t$/ namespace is reserved by POSIX for libc symbols.

But GNU M4 already violates this rule in a few places so don't sweat.
I normally capitalise type names to avoid this, but I'm not sure this
fits in with the GNU coding style.

Cheers,
        Gary.
-- 
  ())_. Gary V. Vaughan     gary@(oranda.demon.co.uk|gnu.org)
  ( '/  Research Scientist  http://www.oranda.demon.co.uk       ,_())____
  / )=  GNU Hacker          http://www.gnu.org/software/libtool  \'      `&
`(_~)_  Tech' Author        http://sources.redhat.com/autobook   =`---d__/