[I'm continuing this on the mailing list only] On Mon, Nov 11, 2013 at 06:14:18AM -0800, Markus Elfring wrote: No, we can't do that because such a symbol could be mistaken for public API (although on platforms which support it, we also use a linker script to avoid exporting symbols which are not in the public API). We could probably do something with _guestfs_... which AIUI is permitted. Unless this actually affects a real C++ compiler, it's pretty low on my list. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#)