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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: committers@FreeBSD.ORG, des@flood.ping.uio.no
Subject: Re: hiding symbols
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>How can I hide these symbols so they don't pollute the consumer's
>namespace? In the good old a.out days, the following would have worked
>(with an appropriate libfetch.sym):
>
>$ ld -r -o tmp.o *.o
>$ symorder -c libfetch.sym tmp.o
>
>and then create a shared library with tmp.o. But how do I do it on an
>Elf system?

Don't hide symbols.  It breaks debugging.  Just give them a name in
the implementation namespace.  (Debugging of static symbols is already
broken by ld -r hacks, but this should be fixed.)

Bruce

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