On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:24:45PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Changing the name will make sure all programs will fail to link if the > source hasn't been updated to use the new name and prototype. Only > changing the prototype will only trigger an error at compile time, not > at link time.
So this is a technical fix for social problems (broken build systems
which don't look on source dependencies between files and/or permit
compiler errors).
bastian
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