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Re: test-mergesort conflict with stdlib.h

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Brian Gernhardt <brian@gernhardtsoftware.com>
Date
Apr 17, 2012, 17:55 UTC
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On Apr 17, 2012, at 1:46 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Unfortunate.  OS X shouldn't contaminate the user namespace by adding such
> names in stdlib.h (which incidentally has qsort()), but the damage is done
> already, so I am not opposed to rename it to llist_mergesort() or something.
This seems to be inherited from BSD's userspace which also has a mergesort (radixsort as well).  I'll make a patch to rename it and if anyone doesn't like llist_mergesort, they can repaint the bikeshed themselves.
~~ Brian Gernhardt
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