Re: firefox 29 libxul.so has less symbols in its dynamic symbol table.

Benjamin Smedberg <[email protected]> Tue, 15 Apr 2014 14:22:30 -0400

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.embedding
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On 4/15/2014 2:16 PM, Tom Hindle wrote:
>
> This change means I can no longer use functions like 
> JS_ContextIterator from programs dlopenning or linking libxul.so.
>
> On windows I can still use these symbols from xul.dll.
>
> Have these symbols been intentionally hidden on Linux, by some 
> mechanism I'm not aware of?

Yes, and we intend to hide them on Windows as well, once we solve linker 
memory issues.

See bug 920731.

--BDS