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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