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Date:      Wed, 06 Nov 2002 16:38:55 -0800
From:      Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
To:        "Steven G. Kargl" <kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [PATCH] note the __sF change in src/UPDATING
Message-ID:  <3DC9B61F.922DAB3D@mindspring.com>
References:  <200211070030.gA70UF05024508@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

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"Steven G. Kargl" wrote:
> Could someone add the following patch to UPDATING?
> Change the words to whatever suits your fancy.
> +20021031
> +       Revision 1.24 of lib/libc/stdio/findfp.c has made __sF static.
> +       This changes the visibility of __sF to a symbol internal to
> +       libc.  All applications linked against libc or a library that
> +       depends on libc that were compiled prior to 31 Oct 2002 will
> +       need to be updated after a "make world".  An error message that
> +       includes "undefined reference to `__sF'" is an indication that
> +       that application needs to be recompiled.
> +


Any chance we could get rid of all externally visable symbols that
are not defined as being there by some standard, and not just __sF,
since we are breaking the FORTRAN compiler and other third party
code already?

It would be nice if this only ever happened *once*.

-- Terry

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