[MPlayer-dev-eng] fast_memcpy namespace collision

[Torinthiel]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 11:42:18PM +0100, Enrico Weigelt wrote:
> * D Richard Felker III <dalias at aerifal.cx> [2004-01-19 12:06:02 -0500]:
> 
> <snip>
> > Send a bugreport to suse or glibc developers (if it's in stock glibc).
> > Including a function named fast_memcpy violates ansi or posix or
> > something.
> Does it really ?
> What does POSIX say about functions in the base library ?
> Does it specify, that libc may not export other functions than the
> supported ones ?
> 
> 
> I personally would prefer renaming the function in the mplayer code.
> If you'd accept the patch, I'd go ahead and replace fast_memcpy by
> _mp_vo_fast_memcpy or something like that.

Well, this name is obviously bad. Everything that begins with _ is
reserved (was mentioned quite recently IIRC).
Torinthiel

> BTW: wouldn't it be better (for performance) to code this as an inline 
> function or a macro ? On most platforms it should be less than 5 ops

How do you want inline in C?
Torinthiel

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