From: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Rename log() to note() due to conflict with ISO standard
Date: Fri, 22 Aug 2003 20:08:40 +1000
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To: Chip Salzenberg <chip@pobox.com>
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On Thursday August 21, chip@pobox.com wrote:
> As I wrote before:
> > ISO C reserves the names of standard functions.  It's not legal to
> > define a function called log(), and even though gcc happens to permit
> > it, the permission comes only with obnoxious warnings.
> 
> So this is a patch to rename log() to note().  I'm not totally fond of
> the name note(); and if we keep it I'll also rename the L_ constants to
> N_ for consistency.  Comments?

lprintf printl Log mesg 

None significantly better than 'note', some worse.
I did think of "pxe" (exp backwards) or "branch", but those are just
sick puns.

Is it really illegal even if you don't #include <math.h> ??

But I am happy with you patch,
thanks,
NeilBrown


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