From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: gnutls for lose32 Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2012 04:17:16 -0800 Organization: UCLA Computer Science Department Message-ID: <4F01A04C.4090201@cs.ucla.edu> References: <87aa68dfao.fsf@lifelogs.com> <4F0154F1.6000002@cs.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1325506650 16898 80.91.229.12 (2 Jan 2012 12:17:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 12:17:30 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , rms@gnu.org, nmav@gnutls.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Carsten Mattner Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 02 13:17:25 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RhgpQ-0005ok-2U for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 13:17:24 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58548 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RhgpP-00079G-4u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:17:23 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:46045) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RhgpL-00078x-VW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:17:20 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RhgpK-0005UX-Rf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:17:19 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:39440) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RhgpJ-0005Tr-9b; Mon, 02 Jan 2012 07:17:17 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B501A60005; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 04:17:16 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 0AGnYv3FpfV6; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 04:17:15 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.10] (pool-71-189-109-235.lsanca.fios.verizon.net [71.189.109.235]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 5134EA60004; Mon, 2 Jan 2012 04:17:15 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:8.0) Gecko/20111124 Thunderbird/8.0 In-Reply-To: X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:147167 Archived-At: On 01/02/12 02:46, Carsten Mattner wrote: > "win32" is used in the same way as "posix" to refer to a set of > platform APIs. That's one name, but it's not the only one and it's not necessarily even the most common one in practice. As discussed in , Microsoft prefers the name "Windows API" to "Win32 API", and "Windows API" is quite commonly used. Using this common name to talk about the API helps us to avoid the problem with "win". For Emacs's own identifiers, common practice is to use "w32_" as a prefix; perhaps that should be changed to something else at some point (when 64-bit Windows takes over?), but this should be an independent issue. The proposed patch by and large leaves "w32" alone, since "w32" doesn't run afoul of the "win" issue.