[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> In my mind, the primary benefit of DEF is that it lets you
> specify the symbol order (and export list) so that you can
> preserve binary compatibility across releases. I don't think
> this need by an OpenSSL goal, so I would vote to remove them.
I was going to say this, only the other way round: you break binary
compatibility if you don't use DEFs. I would consider this to be worth
preserving, actually, if we can, but not so hugely important it
overrides other considerations.
But ... have you considered preprocessing the files before mkdefing
them?
Cheers,
Ben.
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