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From:	sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
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Subject:	Re: Fix for environ pollution
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Date:	Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:40:06 -0500 (CDT)
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> As Brian Ingals noticed, the variable environ currently pollutes the
> namespace.  The solution is obvious: change all references to environ
> to _environ in the library, and move its declaration from crt1.c to
> djgpp.djl which can then provide environ to those programs that expect
> it.  Here's a patch to do it:

Instead of putting environ in djgpp.djl, could we use a define statement
in a header outside the ansi and posix definitions? 

I am not familiar with the pros and cons of PROVIDE.

There were some other symbols listed in a later email also which were
also in the namespace

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