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Re: Symbol visibility for gcj
Mark Wielaard writes:
> On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 18:18 +0000, Andrew Haley wrote:
> > I don't believe it should cause any problems, but it is possible that
> > this will break some code that was using CNI to access private symbols
> > inside a DSO. I don't think we care about that.
>
> For CNI we seem to treat package private members as visible. Is using
> package private members from CNI still supported/will it be kept
> supported, or should such usage be turned into java protected members?
I haven't done anything about package private, so accessing package
private members from outside a DSO will still work after this patch.
Whether this *should* be supported, I don't know...
Andrew.