[libcxxabi] r228903 - unwind: move exported APIs out of header

[Logan Chien]

Hi Saleem,

Any updated comments on this?  Thanks.

Logan

On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 5:46 AM, Logan Chien <tzuhsiang.chien at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Saleem,
>
> Sorry for the late reply.
>
> Although I am not strongly oppose to the idea to provide both inline and
> extern version, I am concerned that exporting these symbols will further
> fragmentize the ecosystem.  With these symbol exported, some application
> will start to simply declaring their own prototype and referencing the
> these functions directly instead of including <unwind.h>.  IMO, it should
> be conservative to extend an ABI especially when the extension is neither
> documented nor de facto in the ARM ecosystem.
>
> > On the other hand, when applications are using the interfaces, expecting
> the unwind APIs, I think that they should continue to function.  Providing
> both the external as well as the inlined version should achieve that.
>
> In fact, this is what I wish to avoid.  IMO, for the application
> developers, they should simply include <unwind.h> if they need these
> functions, instead of declaring their own function prototype.
>
> Sincerely,
> Logan
>
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