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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] libnotmuch: build symbols list without relying on gcc -aux-info.
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:45:48 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fwmtvixf.fsf@convex-new.cs.unb.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87iprpaibc.fsf@yoom.home.cworth.org>

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On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 12:04:39 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:

> I assume by "better" you mean that this one is less fragile to issues
> like the precise formatting of our notmuch.h header file.

Yes, that's what I meant.

> Meanwhile, though, our API *is* declared in the header file, (that's
> what the header file exists for), so I do prefer to base our symbol list
> on it.

Sure, that makes sense to me.  I cherry-picked the sed patch to the
release branch.

> In fact, the ideal would probably be to take the objdump method and use
> it in the test suite to verify that its output matches the contents of
> notmuch.sym generated from the header file.

The second patch being turned into a test sounds like a great idea. I
can do that.

d



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  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-28 19:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-06-27  1:08 [PATCH] libnotmuch: build symbols list without relying on gcc -aux-info david
2011-06-27  2:42 ` david
2011-06-28 19:04   ` Carl Worth
2011-06-28 19:45     ` David Bremner [this message]
2011-11-29  6:51   ` New test for exported symbols David Bremner
2011-11-29  6:51     ` [PATCH 1/2] test/symbol-hiding: add some whitespace between tests David Bremner
2011-11-29  6:51     ` [PATCH 2/2] test/symbol-hiding: compare exported symbols with existing one David Bremner
2011-12-08  0:59     ` New test for exported symbols David Bremner

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