export list symbols

Nicolas Williams Nicolas.Williams at sun.com
Tue Oct 20 13:12:16 EDT 2009


On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 01:12:12PM -0400, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote:
> --On Tuesday, October 20, 2009 11:07:55 AM -0500 Nicolas Williams 
> <Nicolas.Williams at sun.com> wrote:
> 
> >I think I missed that these were functions not listed in krb5.h.  If a
> >function is in a private header then I agree that automated static
> >analysis is sufficient for deciding whether to make it not an exported
> >symbol.  Except for private-that-should-be-public symbols, of course,
> >but that can be revisited later.
> 
> What about symbols which were previously removed from the public headers 
> (or were never prototyped), but remain exported to maintain backward 
> compatibility with existing users?

I'd forgotten that there were such symbols.



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