On Sunday, September 1, 2002, at 03:49 PM, Sisyphus wrote: > The Inline::C documentation section "Bugs and Deficiencies" > informs us that > we should avoid using the names in "symbols.perl". > > Does this mean that I should avoid using the C functions named in > 'symbols.perl' ?
No, those are useful things, you'll probably use them a lot. Notice that things like 'strncmp' are in that list. =) Avoiding those things would be quite a crippled flavor of C. Also note that there are (global) variable names as well as function names in that list. > Or does it simply mean that I should not *name* an inline > function with any > of the names appearing in 'symbols.perl'. Yes, this one. -Ken
