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Re: [Bug-readline] [PATCH] Enable visibility annotations
- From: Chet Ramey <chet dot ramey at case dot edu>
- To: Yury Gribov <y dot gribov at samsung dot com>, Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>, Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
- Cc: chet dot ramey at case dot edu, bug-readline at gnu dot org, Vyacheslav Barinov <v dot barinov at samsung dot com>, Yury Usishchev <y dot usishchev at samsung dot com>, "gdb at sourceware dot org" <gdb at sourceware dot org>, Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 08:30:08 -0700
- Subject: Re: [Bug-readline] [PATCH] Enable visibility annotations
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- Reply-to: chet dot ramey at case dot edu
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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