From owner-freebsd-arch Mon Jan 22 7:48:55 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from gw.nectar.com (gw.nectar.com [208.42.49.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EEB1937B698; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 07:48:37 -0800 (PST) Received: from hamlet.nectar.com (hamlet.nectar.com [10.0.1.102]) by gw.nectar.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64AB6193E4; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:48:37 -0600 (CST) Received: (from nectar@localhost) by hamlet.nectar.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) id f0MFmbc93398; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:48:37 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from nectar@spawn.nectar.com) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 09:48:37 -0600 From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" To: "Brian F. Feldman" Cc: Daniel Eischen , Warner Losh , arch@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Request For Review: libc/libc_r changes to allow -lc_r Message-ID: <20010122094837.G93103@hamlet.nectar.com> References: <200101212240.f0LMeSc20272@green.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200101212240.f0LMeSc20272@green.dyndns.org>; from green@FreeBSD.org on Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 05:40:28PM -0500 X-Url: http://www.nectar.com/ Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Jan 21, 2001 at 05:40:28PM -0500, Brian F. Feldman wrote: > > If it's OK for folks to see and use __foo in libc as opposed > > to _foo, I can make that change. > > It's much too dangerous, I believe, to let libc escape out into the > application's namespace much. In Daniel's proposal, _foo would only be a macro seen in the library source. The external symbols would start with `__', so application namespace pollution is dealt with. IMHO. -- Jacques Vidrine / n@nectar.com / jvidrine@verio.net / nectar@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message