[PATCH] fix sdksyms for gcc3

[Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 09:14:42AM -0200, Paulo César Pereira de Andrade wrote:
>   I don't want to have it in any intrusive or hard to understand
> way. But to allow easier handling by automated tools, the syntax
> for symbols that should be available to modules is:
> 
> extern _X_EXPORT <type-spec><optional-newline> <symbol-name> <ignored...>

I'm pretty troubled by this.  If it's C, then it's C.  If it's not C,
then it's not C.  Pseudo-C, OTOH ...

>   The real problem with "sdksyms.*" is that it is trying to resolve
> a problem that should not exist in the first place. If the symbols
> are not "referenced", the linker will not add "unreachable" symbols
> to the Xorg binary. The problem is that the symbols "dropped" are
> only reachable from loadable modules.
> 
>   The proper solution should be either have the Xorg binary actually
> reference those symbols, or have them in separate modules, or possibly
> have then in a shared library...

Arguably, the proper solution is an actual (gasp!) linker script to
manage our so-called API.  Either way, I'm pretty sure that putting half
of Xorg into a shared library just because we haven't figured out
linking yet, is not the way forward.

Cheers,
Daniel
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