linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] lib: Make strreplace prototype compatible with C++

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Message-ID: <20160617193856.GA25433@staticfox.net>
Date:	Fri, 17 Jun 2016 15:38:56 -0400
From:	Matt Ullman <staticfox@...ticfox.net>
To:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] lib: Make strreplace prototype compatible with C++

On Fri, Jun 17, 2016 at 11:38:13AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> I didn't see and could not find any reply to v1.  Who is that comment
> addressed to?  Linus?

Yes, this was addressed to Linus. He CC'd the mailing list, but I could not
find it either. Here is what he wrote:

> Please only change the prototype, not the function. Might as well remove
> the argument names in the prototype.
>
> Let's not make the C code uglier for no reason. The fact that C++ screwed
> up and thought that "new" can't be used as a variable name is no reason not
> to do it in C code.
>
> Similarly, we don't make C code use the insane C++ pointer caring rules.
>
>    Linus

-- Matt Ullman