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Re: flex symbols being exported

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From: Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>
To: "Diego E. 'Flameeyes'" PettenÃ <flameeyes@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: flex symbols being exported
Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:22:59 +0000
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:40:02 +0100
"Diego E. 'Flameeyes'" PettenÃ <flameeyes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Zsh seems to be exporting quite a bit of symbols; while most of the
> interface is used by the plugins, there seems to be also the parser's
> symbols being exported:
> 
> yamato ~ # nm -D /bin/zsh | grep yy
> 08088310 T yylex
> 080e05f0 B yytext

These are actually internal symbols---there's no particular intention to
export them, but as the shell gets linked against its own dependent libraries
they're visible by default on many systems.

I'll commit a patch to remain them to zshlex and zshlextext.

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Peter Stephenson <pws@xxxxxxx>                  Software Engineer
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