symbol hiding

[Paul Davis]

>> 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 :)

--p