>Uhm... why ? These global variables are |static| and therefore visible >only in the source file where they're defined it. And in the case of our >Solaris integration we use "mapfile-vers" which limites the exported >symbols to exactly those listed in this file.
Sorry, I had interpreted "global" as "library global" and not just file global. Ok, so here's the price you pay for static variables: each application pulls in all the data and it will likely cost more memory (each instance of the library gets its own private copy) Casper