CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

[Keith Packard]

Around 20 o'clock on Feb 1, Daniel Stone wrote:

> I think the better option would be to, if you had symbol _FooBar,
> introduce a new (public) symbol FooBar, and make _FooBar do nothing
> but call FooBar; a macro will not be sufficient here since it will break
> with pre-compiled programs.  Mark _FooBar as deprecated, and instantly
> feel better about yourself.

Purity of essence isn't critical here; let's just put the old symbol into 
the public header file and leave the library alone.  There are lots of _ 
symbols from Xlib used by extension libraries and even applications.

-keith


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