Re: about internal exported symbols

[Thomas Dickey]

On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Stanislav Ievlev wrote:

> Greetings!
>
> I have a question about ncurses shared library exported symbols.
> Why this library exports a lot of internal functions with _nc prefix?
> Why ncurses tests use these internal functions, e.g. _nc_free_and_exit() via 
> ExitProgram() macros?

>
> I think it's bad:

read closer: they're only used for testing memory leaks, in a
configuration that the ordinary library is not compiled for.

(there are internal functions exported for tic, infocmp - but that's
not the example you gave).

> First, it's unfair to use internal symbols in the example programs.
> Since initscr() generates permanent memory leak by design,
> it may be better to recommend newterm/delscreen?
> Second, these usually unused global symbols enlarge symbol lookup table
> and make program startup slower.
>
> --
> With best regards
> Stanislav Ievlev.
>
>
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