use of legacy C library functions

[Denys Vlasenko]

On Tuesday 06 April 2010 01:13, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > In libc/sysdeps/linux/common/__syscall_fcntl64.c.  (Why "hidden"?  What's
> > the point in hiding it?  It's a libc export, right?)
> 
> read the documentation in the internal headers.  none of the libc_hidden stuff 
> should have any bearing whatsoever on static builds.

It has some effect. Thus far this machinery is not disabled for static build,
and therefore __GI_func symbols are present in .o modules.
This is harmless, but not needed. Do you think it should be cleaned up?

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