On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 08:38:08AM -0700, Alan Irwin wrote:
> Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 09:42:15 +0200
> From: Rafael Laboissiere <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: PLplot development list
> Subject: Re: Exporting the right symbols in libplplot.so
>
> * Alan W. Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-04 16:17]:
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* Alan W. Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-04 16:17]:
> According to that wiki, the advantages of limiting symbols that are exported
> is smaller libraries and less loading latency.
One important additional advantage is that you do not expose users to the
internal symbols
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* Alan W. Irwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-09-04 16:17]:
> I would love to see that happen so I agree with Rafael this is well worth
> doing. However, an alternative implementation would be to follow the
> cookbook in the above wiki to extend what we currently do for windows
