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On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 09:55:53PM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote: > Hi! > > Those two aliases were unfortunately exported from libc and according to > http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=27029 > IBM DB2 6.1 from IBM Websphere 3.5 was linked against it. > It looks like some inlines (strtou?q, strtou?ll) used to be defined to > __strtou?q_internal at least in 1996 and early 1997. > So, IMHO no matter whether they are unused now, they should be present for > binary compatibility. > If it is the case, please don't make them default so that the static linker won't use them. We have the similar problem with res_init. What happaned to my patch: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2000-12/msg00029.html Jakub, you can use the similar approach to make them not available to the static linker. -- H.J. Lu (hjl@valinux.com)
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