Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:48:37 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <n@nectar.com> To: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>, Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org>, arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Request For Review: libc/libc_r changes to allow -lc_r Message-ID: <20010122094837.G93103@hamlet.nectar.com> In-Reply-To: <200101212240.f0LMeSc20272@green.dyndns.org>; from green@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 05:40:28PM -0500 References: <eischen@vigrid.com> <200101212240.f0LMeSc20272@green.dyndns.org>
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On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 05:40:28PM -0500, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > If it's OK for folks to see and use __foo in libc as opposed > > to _foo, I can make that change. > > It's much too dangerous, I believe, to let libc escape out into the > application's namespace much. In Daniel's proposal, _foo would only be a macro seen in the library source. The external symbols would start with `__', so application namespace pollution is dealt with. IMHO. -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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