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Dear Dominyk,

Thank you for your messages and your patch.  I was not aware of this issue. The problem occurs because two teams of developers agree on a common name for a function that has two different uses. On the one hand, the developers of MACH use a function called "panic", and so did the alpine developers. 
  
I imagine that the panic function for MACH was used to indicate problems with the micro kernel, while the panic function in Alpine was used to report bugs or stop the program altogether. The panic function is not a library function in Alpine, it is a function that a developer using its libraries must write (so Alpine and Web Alpine have their own versions of it) so in order to reduce confusion in the future, what I will do is to rename the panic function to "alpine_panic" so that no program will have the confusion as to what "panic" means in terms of library calls, should anyone ever need to link with a library that calls panic something else. 

This is the solution that will be implemented in the upcoming release of Alpine.

Thank you Dominyk, I really appreciate your report and fix!

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Eduardo