symbol hiding

[Dmitry Timoshkov]

"Paul Davis" <paul at linuxaudiosystems.com> wrote:

> >> for this reason, i personally wouldn't feel comfortable asking in a
> >> public forum how to go about doing this. your mileage may and probably
> >> does vary, of course.
> >
> >Well, if I could clearly predict ELF linker behaviour with several
> >different modules each having global variables/functions with the same
> >names I would not bother too much, but I couldn't. Could you?
> 
> No, but if that was the reason I had for wanting to hide symbols, I
> would probably say so up front, because its a pretty good one :)

Also, I personally feel a bit not comfortable when someone (for any
reason) is looking into a binary and sees names of internal interfaces
not appropriate for external learn/use. I find it ugly that I can't fully
control such basic things in the ELF world.

-- 
Dmitry.