internal_function symbols part of the public ABI

[Andreas Schwab]

On Aug 14 2017, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:

> The 2007 commit radically changed the calling convention, so it's safe
> to assume that there were no active users on i386 at the time because
> they would have run into crashes.  Today, it's still difficult to call
> these functions because it is hard to write a correct prototype.

They are really private interfaces for nscd, AFAICS.

> Can we remove the functions completely?

They should be unexported, for sure.  Since nscd doesn't use them any
more, they could just be dummies.

Andreas.

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