On 2013-02-28 12:51:29 +0100, Niels Möller wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> writes: > > > I don't understand why changing the __ prefix to a gmp_ or libgmp_ > > namespace would be a problem. > > It breaks ABI compatibility (but that's no big problem, since I think we > all agree the change should be done only when we have some other good > reason to break the ABI). And it's going to break some configure > scripts, and programs using dlopen to access GMP symbols. > > These are all transition problems. I'm not aware of any other drawbacks.
Of course, I meant except the obvious compatibility problems. BTW, if this is decided, since this is going to break things, such a change should be announced several months before starting it, so that (almost) every one has a chance to be ready when it occurs in a release version. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) _______________________________________________ gmp-devel mailing list gmp-devel@gmplib.org http://gmplib.org/mailman/listinfo/gmp-devel