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Date:      Mon, 05 May 2003 22:25:54 +0200
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: `Hiding' libc symbols
Message-ID:  <xzpk7d53zu5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <20030505175426.GA19352@madman.celabo.org> (Jacques A. Vidrine's message of "Mon, 5 May 2003 12:54:26 -0500")
References:  <20030501182820.GA53641@madman.celabo.org> <XFMail.20030501144502.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20030501191027.GA53801@madman.celabo.org> <20030505110601.H53365@beagle.fokus.fraunhofer.de> <20030505175426.GA19352@madman.celabo.org>

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"Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org> writes:
> So, I advocate hiding all symbols in libc by default.  The Real World
> doesn't seem to care whether the symbols are defined by any standard or
> not.

I'm with you, but I would also like to point out that there is a small
number of ports which will require changes: ports like electricfence,
boehm-gc and others that rely at least in part on replacing libc's
malloc(), calloc(), realloc() and free().

DES
-- 
Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org



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