[PATCH] lib: Precede all function names in notmuch-private.h with an underscore.
David Bremner
david at tethera.net
Mon May 12 04:29:09 PDT 2014
David Bremner <david at tethera.net> writes:
> Charles Celerier <cceleri at cs.stanford.edu> writes:
>
>> An underscore should precede every function name in
>> lib/notmuch-private.h. This was not true and was noted by the failure of
>> test T360-symbol-hiding on Mac OS/X. This patch inserts an underscore
>> before each function name in lib/notmuch-private.h where the underscore
>> was missing and renames functions appropriately where they are used.
>
> Originally I thought this was uneccesarily intrusive, but on a second
> look I see that there is only one symbol changed that doesn't start with
> _notmuch, so I guess for consistency it's fine.
>
> I'm thinking about a 0.18.1 point release for build and portability
> fixes; I do think this is a bit too much change for that (especially
> since it doesn't actually fix the symbol hiding test (or more precisely,
> your fix for OS/X breaks the linux test).
Also, I'd like a less confusing commit message. Do you understand the
situation enough to write one now? In particular it's just a convention
that private symbols should not start with "notmuch", and the actual
hiding happens elsewhere.
d
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