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Date:      Tue, 02 Sep 1997 00:15:07 +0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com.au>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@rover.village.org>
Cc:        S ren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-bin@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/bin/pax ar_io.c ar_subs.c buf_subs.c cache.c cpio.c extern.h file_subs.c ftree.c options.c pat_rep.c pax.c sel_subs.c tables.c tar.c tty_subs.c 
Message-ID:  <199709011615.AAA05880@spinner.dialix.com.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 29 Aug 1997 10:30:05 CST." <E0x4Tvx-0007P3-00@rover.village.org> 

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Warner Losh wrote:
> In message <199708291612.JAA10746@freefall.freebsd.org> S ren Schmidt writes:
> :   Dont have an internal function named "warn" it clashes with libc..
> :   Needed for ELF.
> 
> Are you sure that changing every program that has a warn function is
> the way to go?  Shouldn't warn be a weak symbol and we have a _warn
> that isn't weak that we call from inside of libc to prevent name space
> polution?

If weak symbols were completely implemented in the a.out ld.so, it might be
ideal. :-)

> Warner
> 

Cheers,
-Peter





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