Removing a symbol from Symbol.map?
Steve Kargl
sgk at troutmask.apl.washington.edu
Thu Oct 11 11:42:31 PDT 2007
On Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 02:34:35PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Oct 2007, Steve Kargl wrote:
>
> >In my journey through the libm source code, I've discovered
> >that msun/src/w_cabs.c contains a function named z_abs. This
> >symbol appears in libm's Symbol.map, but z_abs has not prototype
> >in any header file under /usr/include. Thus, it is namespace
> >pollution that I'd like to remove. Do I simply remove z_abs from
> >Symbol.map or is there more to it then this?
>
> Nope, no more to it than just removing it from the symbol
> map. I certainly don't have any object to removing symbols
> that don't belong there. It should be MFC'd to -7 before
> release if it really shouldn't be there. If it doesn't
> make it to -7, then we'll need to keep it as a compatibility
> function forever.
>
> >PS: Yes, I know bde will probably object to removal of z_abs
> >because of compatibility issues with fdlibm and the other *BSD.
>
I certainly believe that z_abs should be removed. I've cc'd bde
to see if he has an objection.
--
Steve
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