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Re: Symbol visibility for gcj

From: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
To: Mark Wielaard <mark at klomp dot org>
Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org, java-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
Date: Sat, 24 Mar 2007 10:20:31 +0000
Subject: Re: Symbol visibility for gcj
References: <17924.6636.434128.707456@zebedee.pink> <1174693756.4301.4.camel@dijkstra.wildebeest.org>

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.

References:
- Symbol visibility for gcj
  - From: Andrew Haley
- Re: Symbol visibility for gcj
  - From: Mark Wielaard

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