Re: underscores and function names

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Interesting. I didn't realize that.

At 03:14 AM 1/4/2005, Jan Hudec wrote:

In fact I believe it's not. While __ means something like "bare bones
version to use if you are sure you have made all sanity-checks and hold
all the locks", _ rather means "this function isn't here". Symbols
starting with one _ are traditionaly used for library symbols, that
should have been static, but for some techical reason can't. I believe
it's the same in kernel.

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