Re: [Bug-readline] [PATCH] Enable visibility annotations

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/22/16 10:24 AM, Pedro Alves wrote:

>> All of the public symbols in history.h are part of the history library,
>> which can be built both as part of readline and separately.  We were a
>> little careless 25 years ago with the public function names, and it's too
>> late to change those now, but all of the history library variables have a
>> `history_' prefix.
> 
> Note that "history_offset" is declared in histlib.h however, which reads:
> 
>  /* histlib.h -- internal definitions for the history library. */
>  ...
>  /* Some variable definitions shared across history source files. */
>  extern int history_offset;

That definition is in history.h in readline-7.0.

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