GNU used several extensions that were incompatible with C99 and POSIX,
so they used alternate names for the standard functions.

The result is that we need these to run standards-conformant programs
that were linked with glibc.

to deal with the fact that the public headers may be used with pre-c99
compilers, __restrict is used in place of restrict, and defined
appropriately for any supported compiler. we also avoid the form
[restrict] since older versions of gcc rejected it due to a bug in the
original c99 standard, and instead use the form *restrict.