On Thu, Aug 29, 2013 at 02:47:46PM +0200, Paolo Carlini wrote:
> On 08/29/2013 02:19 PM, Jan Hubicka wrote:
> >So my belief is that it is safe to drop those symbols from
> >libstdc++. Every program/DSO using them have to define its own
> >copy of those symbols, so I believe removing them from libstdc++
> >won't cause issues.
> Really, you should check with Jakub before proceeding. I the change
> it's Ok with him, it's Ok with me too (the other library maintainers
> should be in CC however). At minimum the baselines would need
> updating.
I'm very nervous about removing any exported symbols, apps could dlsym them
or whatever. So, if the compiler makes those hidden, either there should be
an option to restore the old behavior and libstdc++ should use it, or we
need some renaming/alias hacks to restore those.
Jakub
