`Hiding' libc symbols

[Daniel Eischen]

On Tue, 6 May 2003, Andrey A. Chernov wrote:

> On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 23:25:46 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > 
> > The patch that makes the linker produce warnings or errors like you
> > suggested.  You seemed so convinced it was the best solution that I
> > figured you had to have a patch ready to commit.
> 
> I don't write one yet (since some functions are still hidden by threads). 
> From first look, it will be based on ".protected" gas instruction or 
> something like.

As the person who went through libc and added most of the weak
symbols in order to satisfy the needs of the threads library
and to separate libc_r from libc, I would kindly suggest that
you leave things alone.  But if want to change things, please
make sure they work with all the threads libraries that we
currently have.  I don't want the burden of doing this nor
have it impact our current efforts.

-- 
Dan Eischen