[m-rev.] for review: fix library header files overriding system header files

Fergus Henderson fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Wed Sep 5 19:55:20 AEST 2001


On 04-Sep-2001, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 03-Sep-2001, Simon Taylor <stayl at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > 
> > I'm not sure whether it's a good idea to commit this change.
> 
> I think it's ok, but it doesn't solve the entire problem (e.g. non-gcc
> backends), and it would be good if we could document this deficiency
> somewhere.
> 
> Our other option is to consider mangling system header files that we
> rely on (so math.m always generates math__mangled.h or something).

e.g. math.m.h

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