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Re: Generally use underscore-pre-/-postfixed attributes?

From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:16:24 -0800
Subject: Re: Generally use underscore-pre-/-postfixed attributes?
References: <20130220155636.14583.qmail@sourceware.org> <871ucbar01.fsf@kepler.schwinge.homeip.net> <5124FB68.2000305@redhat.com>

On 02/20/13 08:35, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> The only argument against them is that they increase the size of the
> headers and thus reduce compilation performance?

The main argument against the extra __ __ is readability --
i.e., what matters is the slowdown for humans, not compilers.

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