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"Andrey A. Chernov" wrote:
> What produce less errors in application and libraries?
> a) Allow application to replace any standard function.
> b) Produce linker error on such attempts.
> 
> Please also note that I not treat functions like err(), warn() etc. as
> standard, so namespace.h is right for them.

Probably you want to add an option to the linker to make it
treat weak symbols as strong, and *do not* turn it on by
default, and make it apply positionally, so that it can be
applied on a per-library basis by the ports maintainer.  It
would be a much better approach than trying to relink, which,
after reading the code, I'm convinced would not work (my
previous suggestion).

-- Terry