> Date: Thu, 15 May 2008 15:21:05 -0700 > From: Scott Rotondo <scott.rotondo at sun.com> > Subject: Re: PSARC/2008/309 - expunge synonyms.h > To: "Roger A. Faulkner" <Roger.Faulkner at sun.com> > Cc: Darren.Moffat at sun.com, jek3 at sun.com, John.Plocher at sun.com, psarc-ext at sac.sfbay.sun.com, Bart.Smaalders at sun.com, Rod.Evans at sun.com, Darrin.Johnson at sun.com > > Roger A. Faulkner wrote: > > Ok. (Thanks to all.) This is my proposal, in the form of additional > > material in the libc(3LIB) manual page (a stability level of > > Stable would be fine with me -- it will never change): > > > > ... > > > > > All of the old leading-underscore symbols have been copied > > to the synonyms compatibility library. This library simply > > redirects the calls to the non-underscore instances of the > > corresponding functions in libc. Use it as a preloaded object: > > Just to be clear: "all" means all, not just the 55 symbols identified > earlier. Is that correct? > > Scott
Yes. "all" means about 985 names, including symbols that aren't being removed from libc on this go-around (about 600 of them are). Roger
