Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 18:14:45 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@pcnet1.pcnet.com> To: "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru> Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Subject: Re: `Hiding' libc symbols Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10305051806320.1374-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <20030505214605.GA41803@nagual.pp.ru>
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On Tue, 6 May 2003, Andrey A. Chernov wrote: > On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 23:25:46 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > > > The patch that makes the linker produce warnings or errors like you > > suggested. You seemed so convinced it was the best solution that I > > figured you had to have a patch ready to commit. > > I don't write one yet (since some functions are still hidden by threads). > From first look, it will be based on ".protected" gas instruction or > something like. As the person who went through libc and added most of the weak symbols in order to satisfy the needs of the threads library and to separate libc_r from libc, I would kindly suggest that you leave things alone. But if want to change things, please make sure they work with all the threads libraries that we currently have. I don't want the burden of doing this nor have it impact our current efforts. -- Dan Eischen
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