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From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
To: Roland McGrath <roland@frob.com>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
   GNU libc hackers <libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com>
Subject: Re: separately compiling libc modules for rtld
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In-Reply-To: <200210010825.g918P6E10682@magilla.sf.frob.com>; from roland@frob.com on Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 01:25:06AM -0700
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On Tue, Oct 01, 2002 at 01:25:06AM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > I know that Hurd has problems.  But exported symbols temporarily should
> > be able to fix that, right?  And it also doesn't introduce any permanent
> > ABI damage.  So I'd rather go this way unless you prefer to not change
> > the code and declare 2.3.1 as the first release usable for Hurd.
> 
> That would be ok with me, but it might be hard for the Debian/Hurd guys.
> 
> There is never any question of ABI breakage that I know of, just that it
> works or it doesn't or it has too many PLT entries and is less optimal.  
> It seems to me the simplest thing for now would be to make it easy to just
> disable all the hidden_proto stuff entirely and have Hurd do that.  
> I'll add something.

Yeah, I think a simple libc-symbols.h change is best for 2.3.

	Jakub