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Re: gcc for glibc 2.3
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Roland McGrath wrote:
I moved __uselocale to GLIBC_2.3; all the __ names for the new locale fns have
always been prototyped. Are you saying we should remove those prototypes
from the installed headers?
libstdc++ can and should indeed have own prototypes. Thinking about it,
the __ variants of the new functions should be exported as
GLIBC_PRIVATE. For packaging libstdc++ this would mean a bit more
effort (to avoid the errors caused by areference of a @GLIBC_PRIVATE
symbol). But this is nothing new, it has to be done for glibc as well.
I suppose if libstdc++ uses decls like
extern __typeof (uselocale) __uselocale; is won't be error prone not
to have them.
Right.
Still, I am dubious about removing the prototypes.
The problem with exposing internal functions is always the same:
somebody finds a reason to use them.
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