Re: Rseq registration: Google tcmalloc vs glibc

From: Szabolcs Nagy
Date: Thu Feb 27 2020 - 05:19:00 EST


On 26/02/2020 18:56, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> ----- On Feb 26, 2020, at 12:27 PM, Chris Kennelly ckennelly@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> I agree that this could potentially violate inviarants, but
>> InitFastPerCpu is not intended to be called by the application.
>
> OK, explicitly documenting this would be a good thing. In my own projects,
> I prefix those symbols with double-underscores (__) to indicate that those
> are not meant to be called by other means than the static inlines in the API.

use a different convention for that, __ prefix is always
reserved for the implementation for arbitrary use.

ideally internals would not be exposed in the user api
and then there is no such issue.