From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 73741 invoked by alias); 20 Apr 2016 15:30:35 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 73731 invoked by uid 89); 20 Apr 2016 15:30:35 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=vita, lyf, D*case.edu, bless X-HELO: mpv1-2015.case.edu Received: from mpv2-2015.CWRU.Edu (HELO mpv1-2015.case.edu) (129.22.103.227) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-GCM-SHA256 encrypted) ESMTPS; Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:30:25 +0000 Received: from mpv8-2015.CWRU.Edu (EHLO mpv8-2015.case.edu) ([129.22.103.210]) by mpv2-2015.case.edu (MOS 4.4.7-GA FastPath queued) with ESMTP id AEY05138; Wed, 20 Apr 2016 11:30:09 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 70.103.56.130 (EHLO jenna.local) ([70.103.56.130]) by mpv8-2015.case.edu (MOS 4.4.7-GA FastPath queued) with ESMTP id CBH81670 (AUTH cpr); Wed, 20 Apr 2016 11:30:08 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: chet.ramey@case.edu Subject: Re: [Bug-readline] [PATCH] Enable visibility annotations References: <94eb2c1232a01a28910530c65c78@google.com> <57171B67.3040204@samsung.com> <57174A3A.80303@redhat.com> <57174FBC.7080909@samsung.com> <5717579B.1020302@redhat.com> <57176010.6060100@samsung.com> To: Yury Gribov , Pedro Alves , Doug Evans Cc: chet.ramey@case.edu, bug-readline@gnu.org, Vyacheslav Barinov , Yury Usishchev , "gdb@sourceware.org" , Jan Kratochvil From: Chet Ramey Message-ID: <5717A080.7010403@case.edu> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 15:30:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <57176010.6060100@samsung.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Junkmail-Whitelist: YES (by domain whitelist at mpv2-2015.case.edu) X-Mirapoint-Virus-RAPID-Raw: score=unknown(0), refid=str=0001.0A020203.5717A084.01B7,ss=1,re=0.000,fgs=0, ip=70.103.56.130, so=2015-08-12 04:07:17, dmn=2011-05-27 18:58:46 X-Mirapoint-Loop-Id: 8999c6d9e03779b87422a45de8e6d88f X-SW-Source: 2016-04/txt/msg00038.txt.bz2 On 4/20/16 3:55 AM, Yury Gribov wrote: >> The alternative is bless the private symbols as >> public API forever... Each package owner will know what their >> package needs from readline and why they found a need >> to (ab)use readline private symbols. I see no way around that. > > Guess that's what's going to happen (unless some motivated readline > maintainer steps in, willing to work with various users on getting rid of > leaked symbols). I can work with people as my time permits, as long as they contact me. I'm going to look at the visibility patches for the next bash/readline release, but it's too late to get them into bash-4.4/readline-7.0. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU chet@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/