"H. Peter Anvin" [off-list ref] writes:
I think there is another good reason for doing the renaming bit: we're
creating new macros with different semantics; in particular, the git
macros handle signed char input and don't guarantee anything w.r.t. EOF.
-hpa
Thanks. I'll include the renaming bits to "master" branch when
I hear somebody on OpenBSD confirms that the patch fixes it.