bug-readline
[Top][All Lists]
Advanced

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: [Bug-readline] [PATCH] Enable visibility annotations


From: Chet Ramey
Subject: Re: [Bug-readline] [PATCH] Enable visibility annotations
Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 08:30:08 -0700
User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.7.2

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    address@hidden    http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/



reply via email to

[Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread]