On Sat, Jan 05, 2019 at 08:19:38AM -0600, Peng Yu wrote: > Hi, > > It is not uncommon to see the same name is used to defined functions > in different .c files in bash source code. > > For example, sh_single_quote is defined in both lib/readline/shell.c > and lib/sh/shquote.c with the exact same signature. The two pieces of > code are slightly different. Do they do the exact same things or do > something different? > > In either case, is having the same name for different functions a good > practice? This will make the linked binary dependent on the order of > the corresponding .a files specified. Or if linked via .o files, then > one function will shadow the others. See 1) and 2) below for minimal > working examples. Neither cases seem to be good and could be avoided > easily by giving the functions unique names. > > So, should such functions with the same name be named differently? Thanks.
This mailing list (bug-bash) is for reporting BUGS. If you must, at least please use help-bash for generic questions? Although you should probably be asking this to a C programming forum...
