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Subject: Re: Re: `Hiding' libc symbols
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On Thu, 1 May 2003, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:

JAV>   (c) Hide all symbols, except those that are likely to
JAV>       be candidates to be overridden.  malloc/free seem
JAV>       to be the only ones here.

As far as I know, all programs from J.Schilling (cdrecord, star, ...)
carry their own printf (and a good other half of libc). I suppose there
are others that do this. While overriding libc functions is not exactly
standard supported (as far as I understand), it has been used ever since.
If there are un-overridable functions (for whatever reasons) they should
be documented somewhere (say in the man page of that function). We should
not expect application writers/porters to dig around in libc internals.

harti
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