[rfc] towards a defined abi for libgfortran

[Steve Kargl]

On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 04:41:50PM -0800, Richard Henderson wrote:
> A prerequisite for being able to point to an ABI is symbol access control.
> Namely, you don't want to expose any symbols that you don't mean to expose.
> 
> The following patch replaces the prefix macro with a set of fine-grain
> macros that do allow us to control which symbols are seen by user apps.
>

Bootstrapped and regression tested on amd64-unknown-freebsd6.0.  I also
successfully ran several of my test programs. 

> 
> Comments?
> 

If it reduces namespace pollution, I think the patch should be
committed.  Of course, we'll should probably hear Paul's opinion.

-- 
Steve