`Hiding' libc symbols

[Andrey A. Chernov]

On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 22:25:54 +0200, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar at FreeBSD.org> writes:
> > So, I advocate hiding all symbols in libc by default.  The Real World
> > doesn't seem to care whether the symbols are defined by any standard or
> > not.
> 
> I'm with you, but I would also like to point out that there is a small
> number of ports which will require changes: ports like electricfence,
> boehm-gc and others that rely at least in part on replacing libc's
> malloc(), calloc(), realloc() and free().

Unless my point was not clear from my previous posts, I advocate exact
opposite: to unhide all standard symbols from libc, including here
standard prefixes like str*. We must not encourage programmer error 
when he define standard function, it easily leads to unexpected results. 
Better reject such error automatically at the linkage stage. Programmers 
are always free to redefine their functions in case of conflict.