From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24604 invoked by alias); 13 Jan 2009 19:47:05 -0000 Received: (qmail 24596 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Jan 2009 19:47:04 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:46:24 +0000 Received: (qmail 25307 invoked from network); 13 Jan 2009 19:46:21 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO orlando.local) (pedro@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 13 Jan 2009 19:46:21 -0000 From: Pedro Alves To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [0/2] Inspect extra signal information Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2009 19:47:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 Cc: Eli Zaretskii , mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl References: <200901121846.51709.pedro@codesourcery.com> <200901131937.26135.pedro@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: <200901131937.26135.pedro@codesourcery.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200901131946.44072.pedro@codesourcery.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-01/txt/msg00297.txt.bz2 On Tuesday 13 January 2009 19:37:25, Pedro Alves wrote: > > is free to change the symbol it uses for this any time, and use the > > __uid_t one for something utterly incompatible. =A0Since the name begins > > with 2 underscores, the library implementation doesn't need to bother > > being back-compatible, because such names are off-limits for user code. >=20 > No, it is allowed to assume that the type name will not collide with > any user defined type. =A0It's only about namespace, that's all. =A0Thing= s will > surelly break if the type changes to something else incompatible. Oh well, I think I said the same thing you did anyway. :-) --=20 Pedro Alves