Re: test-mergesort conflict with stdlib.h

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Brian Gernhardt <brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On OS X 10.7.3, I get the following error attempting to build next:
>
>     CC test-mergesort.o
> In file included from test-mergesort.c:2:
> ./mergesort.h:4:7: error: conflicting types for 'mergesort'
> void *mergesort(void *list,
>       ^
> /usr/include/stdlib.h:306:6: note: previous declaration is here
> int      mergesort(void *, size_t, size_t,
>          ^
>
> This appears to be due to the fact that 0db71e0: "add mergesort() for
> linked lists" added a mergesort implementation with a different
> signature than a mergesort implemented by OS X's standard library.

Unfortunate.  OS X shouldn't contaminate the user namespace by adding such
names in stdlib.h (which incidentally has qsort()), but the damage is done
already, so I am not opposed to rename it to llist_mergesort() or something.

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