D126 - The standard word list is harvested from FreeBSD

Status: decided Date: 2026-09-26

The published-standard word list is generated from every .map version script in a cited FreeBSD revision, recorded in the file's header. Names with a leading underscore are kept; FBSDprivate_* blocks are skipped because FreeBSD marks them private. A malformed map costs its own symbols, not the run.

Why: a list written from memory cannot be audited and is bounded by what one person recalled. Where a source states a distinction, the distinction is taken from it: a rule invented on top - skipping reserved names, or reading only files called Symbol.map - silently drops real interface names.

Rejected:

• A hand-written list: unauditable.
• Skipping reserved names: loses the C++ ABI.
• Matching Symbol.map only: loses the threading library.