But it does not solve the purpose. So.. That means that gcc (RedHat Linux) does not have anything like sun compilers/hp/windows compiler have.. i.e. to have a mapfile/symfile & then export only the required symbols exported/ -----Original Message----- From: Tony Wetmore [mailto:tony.wetmore@xxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, October 28, 2003 10:45 PM To: lrtaylor@xxxxxxxxxx; abansal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; gcc-help@xxxxxxxxxxx > > Does Linux/gcc support a mapfile syntax, so that we can hide/export > > symbols in shared lib on Linux as well? > > ...if you declare functions or variables as being static... they will > only be visible within that compilation unit... Of course, code within the compilation unit can always pass (or return) pointers to static elements to code outside the compilation unit. I have never done this across shared library boundaries, but I do not see why it should fail. Naturally, this might be a kind of kludgy solution to your problem. :) --- Tony Wetmore Raytheon Solipsys mailto:tony.wetmore@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.solipsys.com
