Re: [PATCH] Enable visibility annotations

Chet Ramey <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.readline,gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Organization ITS, Case Western Reserve University
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 4/20/16 3:55 AM, Yury Gribov wrote:

>> The alternative is bless the private symbols as
>> public API forever...  Each package owner will know what their
>> package needs from readline and why they found a need
>> to (ab)use readline private symbols.  I see no way around that.
> 
> Guess that's what's going to happen (unless some motivated readline
> maintainer steps in, willing to work with various users on getting rid of
> leaked symbols).

I can work with people as my time permits, as long as they contact me.

I'm going to look at the visibility patches for the next bash/readline
release, but it's too late to get them into bash-4.4/readline-7.0.

Chet
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