Changing private symbols to public (was: Re: CVS Update: xc (branch: trunk))

[Keith Whitwell]

Mike A. Harris wrote:

> It'd also be a good idea to explore the hide-private-symbols
> stuff Jakub was working on before, which also has the benefit of
> lowering the number of startup relocations that need to be done,
> thus cutting down runtime startup costs.  This would have the
> benefit of making the internal symbols permanently private as
> well, so such symbol abuses don't occur again down the line.

As a note, Jakub's patch to the Mesa parts of XFree86 has been applied 
for some time now (after extensive rework, by IDR & Brian, I think - the 
original had some largish issues).

Keith