From: Brian Gernhardt <brian@gernhardtsoftware.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 17:55:40 GMT
Subject: Re: test-mergesort conflict with stdlib.h
Message-ID: <D6A62F9A-EB46-4736-BFDA-0044A993443E@gernhardtsoftware.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vd376ntem.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>


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