On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:29:22PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> On Sat, 05 Jan 2008, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > >  [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2.2
> [...]
> > Perhaps to limit the possibilities of abuse, wildcards should only be
> > supported in symbol names if there's an accompanying symbol version (with no
> > wildcard expansion)?

> What do you mean exactly ?

> I don't plan to allow wildcards in symbol version. I'm not even sure if I
> want other wildcards except a single "*" in symbol names. One can always
> add the symbol manually in the file and still make use of wildcards for
> the remaining symbols.

I mean that wildcards should not be allowed to match symbols that don't have
a symbol version.  But if there is a symbol version, then for the cases
where this is useful at all it seems reasonably safe to me.

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