[TRE-general] function names

[Ville Laurikari]

On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 02:16:53PM -0500, William J Poser wrote:
>
> I wonder if it wouldn't be a good idea to name all of the
> public functions with a prefix such as "tre_" that would
> make them unique to the library? That way, failure to link
> to libtre would show up at link time rather than as run time
> bugs. For backwards compatibility there could be a flag
> defaulting to FALSE that would control the use of the prefixless
> names.

Sounds like a good idea.  Would it make sense to include both
"regcomp" and "tre_regcomp" in the library?  This way the libtre.so
ABI would be backwards compatible.

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