Static functions

Dirk Mueller mueller at kde.org
Mon Feb 16 15:44:51 GMT 2004


On Monday 16 February 2004 16:37, Thiago Macieira wrote:

> Hmm... I meant "export from a compilation unit". You're referring to
> "export form a library".

Well sure, as long as you build a binary and not an application the whole 
point becomes mood anyway. 

> Does anyone know if those protected and hidden symbols get removed from
> the library's export symbols when linking/stripping is done? My earlier
> tests indicated that those symbols stayed in the symbol table, but I
> hadn't stripped the library.

Please note that there are multiple symbol tables, and you're testing the 
wrong one (the static symbol table, only used for debugging, backtraces etc). 


Dirk




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