Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 14:34:35 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org> To: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Removing a symbol from Symbol.map? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0710111432060.16311@sea.ntplx.net> In-Reply-To: <20071011180815.GA23643@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> References: <20071011180815.GA23643@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Steve Kargl wrote: > In my journey through the libm source code, I've discovered > that msun/src/w_cabs.c contains a function named z_abs. This > symbol appears in libm's Symbol.map, but z_abs has not prototype > in any header file under /usr/include. Thus, it is namespace > pollution that I'd like to remove. Do I simply remove z_abs from > Symbol.map or is there more to it then this? Nope, no more to it than just removing it from the symbol map. I certainly don't have any object to removing symbols that don't belong there. It should be MFC'd to -7 before release if it really shouldn't be there. If it doesn't make it to -7, then we'll need to keep it as a compatibility function forever. > PS: Yes, I know bde will probably object to removal of z_abs > because of compatibility issues with fdlibm and the other *BSD. -- DE
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