Re: [Mingw-users] glibc searching and sorting

[Danny S. <dan...@cl...>]

> But why uglify the names?  

Because some people want ANSI standard.   

Just because Microsnot do it, 
> doesn't mean we 
> have to follow suit.  Better IMO to keep the same names as 
> are used in 
> glibc; uglification serves only to unnecessarily increase the porting 
> burden,

It avoid polluting the namespace with non-standard symbols

 in deference to an irrelevant Microsnot convention, (unless 
> there is a naming conflict to resolve). 
Actually, MS is doing the right thing here.

Danny 
> 
> Regards,
> Keith.
> 
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