Re: about internal exported symbols

[Stanislav Ievlev]

On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 07:02:28AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> On Wed, 3 Dec 2003, Stanislav Ievlev wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 06:19:28AM -0500, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > _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?
> 
> because they all are used.
> 
> The "_nc_" symbols are for things that cannot be done using the documented
> interface, but are needed for one reason or another.
Well, I agree with you.
But I have to ask some questions, because these functions really undocumented.
Why ncurses library (or utils) needs empty _nc_memmove() function on platforms 
with legal memove()?

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With best regards
Stanislav Ievlev.