On 10/24/2013 01:02 PM, Jeff Epler wrote:
> The main problem would be if there are any out-of-tree users of these
> routines.  Since it's C there's no function overloading, so we can't
> provide both signatures under the same name.  So that means the
> alternatives are something like:
>   * do nothing
>   * break out-of-tree users
>   * provide the call-by-reference version under a different name
> probably the out-of-tree users are mythical, but who knows.  You'd
> better speak up in this thread if you are not mythical.

We should keep our APIs consistent within major versions (2.5, 2.6, 
etc), but I don't mind changing our APIs when upgrading between major 
versions.


-- 
Sebastian Kuzminsky

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