Re: [Mingw-users] glibc searching and sorting

[Keith M. <kei...@us...>]

On Friday 15 June 2007 02:19, Danny Smith wrote:
> Are you after: tsearch, tfind, tdelete, twalk, tdestroy - manage a
> binary tree ?
> I use those myself and can point to code. =A0Should these be in
> libmingwwex.a (with uglified __names)?

I'm generally in favour of providing any extensions which make the code=20
porters life easier.  I wouldn't object to adding them to libmingwex.a,=20
if they are considered generally useful, and a majority of users are=20
happy to accept the increased download size for mingw-runtime.

An alternative option would be to provide a separate contributed library=20
package, as we did recently for Tor Lillqvist's port of glibc regex.

But why uglify the names?  Just because Microsnot do it, doesn't mean we=20
have to follow suit.  Better IMO to keep the same names as are used in=20
glibc; uglification serves only to unnecessarily increase the porting=20
burden, in deference to an irrelevant Microsnot convention, (unless=20
there is a naming conflict to resolve).

Regards,
Keith.