Re: about internal exported symbols

[Stanislav Ievlev]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 06:19:28AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > >
> > > (there are internal functions exported for tic, infocmp - but that's
> > > not the example you gave).
> >
> > Well, but some of these internal exported functions are never used,
> > neither by ncurses libraries nor by ncurses utils:
> > _nc_Copy_Argument
> > _nc_expanded
> > _nc_freeall
> > _nc_free_entries
> > _nc_get_locale
> > _nc_insert_ch
> > _nc_memmove
> > _nc_msec_cost
> > _nc_outstr
> > _nc_read_termcap
> > _nc_screen_resume
> > _nc_sigaction
> > _nc_vsscanf
> > _nc_wgetch
> 
> ...and some are not exported at all, since they're unused on a given
> platform.  Here's a list obtained using 'nm':
Why not to hide all these unused symbols then?