Dynamic symbol table

[Luciano Montanaro]

El 23:55, giovedì 15 luglio 2004, Karl Vogel escribió:
> Frans Englich wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday 15 July 2004 21:09, Karl Vogel wrote:
> >> Karl Vogel wrote:
> >> > I noticed that a lot of the .so files have big dynamic symbol tables,
> >> > as if everything is exported. Wouldn't it be better to only export the
> >> > symbols that are really required?!
> >>
> >> Seems like it is indeed not needed. I've changed the Makefile.am of
> >> some kcm modules to use a version script which only exports init_*
> >> and create_* symbols.
> > 

Some time ago, I tried a version script for the b2 window decoration module,
that exported just the init. Everything seemed to work fine, but then, I didn't
think there would be useful enoughto bother, at the time. But, if all the 
modules can be optimized in the same way, that could well be quite a win!

Luciano