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Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 11:38:12 -0700
From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
To: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: Removing a symbol from Symbol.map?
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On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 02:34:35PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> 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.
> 

I certainly believe that z_abs should be removed.  I've cc'd bde
to see if he has an objection.

-- 
Steve