On 15/11/2004, at 3:39 PM, Zack Weinberg wrote:

> Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> writes:
>
>>> 2) Put __eprintf back into the shared libgcc, as an exported symbol,
>>>    for all !inhibit_libc targets, so that fixincludes can rely on its
>>>    being there.  (If we instead use __assert, then __eprintf will
>>>    remain a static-library-only backward compatibility symbol.)
>>
>> Is this really necessary?  I'd rather have __eprintf linked into only
>> those apps that need it.
>
> Right now, any shared library that uses assert will fail to link.
> _Something_ has to be done.  I'm open to alternative suggestions.

What I would do is put __eprintf in the static libgcc.a, and mark it as 
hidden visibility so that it's private to each shared library.