On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 05:58, Charles Wilson wrote: > Christopher Faylor wrote: > > > > Shouldn't there be a few more entries in this list, like libmingwex, > > libmingwthrd, libmsvcrt (maybe). I don't know if any of those libraries > > have globals that could be erroneously exported but doesn't it pay to > > be safe? > > > libmingwex -- maybe. I dunno -- that's for Danny and/or Earnie to say. > You really only need library-name based protection for static libs; > symbols in import libs are protected from re-export by symbol-exclude > lists (_nm_*,__imp__*, etc). libmsvcrt, libmingwthrd -- no (because > they are implibs).
A light just went on. We could use a "exclude system archive" flag - dont' export symbols originating from libraries in /usr/local/lib/* or /usr/lib/* ( and possibly the gcc lib dir as well - although I think that is a spec thing, as it's gcc's decision to have the library given a certain name). Whaddya think? Rob -- --- GPG key available at: http://users.bigpond.net.au/robertc/keys.txt. ---
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