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Re: openoffice 1.0.1 vs glibc cvs
On Sat, Nov 16, 2002 at 10:43:08AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Kevin B. Hendricks wrote:
>
> > Why remove the functionality of being able to make glibc calls that avoid
> > the pthread cancellation wrappers *before* the new pthreads you are
> > designing is actually put into general use
>
> Using internal symbols and the availability of the new thread code have
> absolutely nothing in common. Internal symbols are internal symbols,
> before or after the introduction of the new thread code and internal
> symbols can change or go away. It's that simple.
To show that internal exported symbol removal is not just theoretical
possibility, e.g. from ld.so something like 25 GLIBC_PRIVATE symbols
have been removed during last few months.
Jakub