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To: Warner Losh <imp@rover.village.org>
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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 
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Date: Tue, 02 Sep 1997 00:15:07 +0800
From: Peter Wemm <peter@spinner.dialix.com.au>
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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