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Kaz Kylheku <433-929-6894@kylheku.com> writes:
> On 2024-03-12, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>> and the answer came back “1037”. The idea that a C-language
>> implementation and run-time environment is any sense monolithic seems
>> hopelessly out of touch.
>
> There is no such out-of-touch idea. In (say) a Glibc-based system, only
> the GCC, Glibc and kernel headers are part of the implementation (which
> comprises C, POSIX plus GNU and Linux extensions), and only the GCC and
> Glibc library components and their external names.
>
> Other libraries are third parties; the __ and _[A-Z] namespace
> simply doesn't belong to them.
>
> C doesn't provide any special tools for the application developer and
> third party code to avoid clashes among themselves.

That’s true, but AFAICT it’s exactly what Lawrence is complaining about:
there’s nothing in the language spec to help those thousand other
libraries avoid name clashes.

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