objdump or nm exported symbols (was: Linker exposing private symbols)

[Nick Clifton]

Hi Jeff,

> Alan, Since I have you on the line...
> 
> Is there a more succinct way to objdump or nm only exported symbols,
> without warts like:
> 
>     nm -gCD sha256_wrapper.so | grep ' T '

[replying for Alan since he is probably very busy].

No. :-(

Probably the closest that you will get is:

  nm --defined-only --extern-only <foo>

But this will include exported data symbols as well as function symbols.

Cheers
  Nick