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From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
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Subject: Re: `Hiding' libc symbols
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"Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> So, I advocate hiding all symbols in libc by default.  The Real World
> doesn't seem to care whether the symbols are defined by any standard or
> not.

I'm with you, but I would also like to point out that there is a small
number of ports which will require changes: ports like electricfence,
boehm-gc and others that rely at least in part on replacing libc's
malloc(), calloc(), realloc() and free().

DES
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