From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jul 25 4:59:59 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [208.42.49.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FADE37B43C for ; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 04:59:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nectar@nectar.com) Received: by gw.nectar.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 846A9AF11F; Wed, 25 Jul 2001 06:59:47 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 06:59:47 -0500 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: Hal Snyder Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: libc.a(err.o) Message-ID: <20010725065947.A27000@hellblazer.nectar.com> Mail-Followup-To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" , Hal Snyder , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <20010725002838.J72882@sneakerz.org> <87d76pmsv5.fsf_-_@gamera.vail> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <87d76pmsv5.fsf_-_@gamera.vail>; from hal@vailsys.com on Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 01:21:18AM -0500 X-Url: http://www.nectar.com/ Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 25, 2001 at 01:21:18AM -0500, Hal Snyder wrote: > I am wondering if there is a problem with err, warn, etc. in libc. [snip] > Bug? Feature? > Do we want separate modules? Weak symbols? Yes, it is a bug. IMHO we should be using weak symbols for all globally visibile identifiers in libc that are not defined by ISO/IEC 9899:199[09]. This comes up periodically; check the archives. Basically somebody needs to do the work. Cheers, -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message