Re: [Bug-wget] Re: gnulib read-file module

[Daniel Stenberg]

On Fri, 9 Jul 2010, Simon Josefsson wrote:

> I don't know how to best resolve this -- GnuTLS contains a dozen of internal 
> functions (mostly from gnulib, like the one you noticed) that cannot be 
> marked 'static' because they are used from multiple .c files in GnuTLS.  So 
> they end up being exported into a static library.  I suppose almost any 
> non-trivial static library has the same problem.  Any suggestions?

I would advice that all non-static global symbols use the regular name-space 
procedures: you use a prefix for them that are specific for your library. As 
you say, it doesn't matter that you don't "export" them since in a static lib 
case they're all basically "exported".

Common approaches are to use "prefix__" (double underscore) for global private 
functions or "_prefix_" (initial underscore in front of prefix).

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