CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk)

[Stuart Anderson]

On Tue, 1 Feb 2005, Keith Packard wrote:

> Anyone else care if the "public" API includes a bunch of random underscore
> prefixed symbols which are essentially accidentally shared symbols?


Isn't there a difference between being globally visible, and being a
Public API?

In this case, it is an internal symbol indicated as such by the underscore
prefix, which is being used any another related library in the stack. The
same situation exists between libXext and libX11. I think libstdc++ does
this with libc also.

This is not that same thing as making the API Public for applications to
use directly. This API does not fit with the rest of the library's API,
and application writers should not be encouraged to use it.


                                 Stuart

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