From: Horst von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl>
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 13:40:16 GMT
Subject: Re: The MIT error
Message-ID: <200510251340.j9PDeGGt006248@laptop11.inf.utfsm.cl>
In-Reply-To: <mwelinder@gmail.com>

Morten Welinder <mwelinder@gmail.com> wrote:
> After the isspace/BSD conflict I looked into what reserved symbols are
> being used by git.  Quite a few, it turns out.

[...]

> Just as isspace is reserved by the C implementation...
> 
>        7.26.2  Character handling <ctype.h>
> 
>        [#1]  Function  names that begin with either is or to, and a
>        lowercase letter (possibly followed by  any  combination  of
>        digits,  letters,  and  underscore)  may  be  added  to  the
>        declarations in the <ctype.h> header.

There go is_space(), etc as suggested by the relevant patches... in any
case, if you /don't/ #include <ctype.h>, you are safe (standardwise),
aren't you? [Yes, idiots who #include that in system headers are way
broken, but...]
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