Qualified Names mean you don't break the C Library

mark at elsie.UUCP mark at elsie.UUCP
Thu Jul 26 07:30:40 AEST 1984


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One way to avoid collision between your own subroutine names and those that
may be used by the C libraries is to declare all routines that are used only
in a single source file to be static. Thus if I want to write my own malloc,
I write:
	static malloc(size)
	unsigned	size;
	{
	...
	}
This will (should) not interfere with any malloc's used by the library. Of
course if I want to this malloc from other files of a multi-file source, I
can't use static so I'd better change the name.

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Mark J. Miller
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