The -Bsymbolic-functions linker flag reduces the amount of PLT jumps in
a shared object, and has a side effect of preventing symbol collisions
in libraries and applications linking against two different shared
objects exposing the same symbol.
While the former is (generally) a performance win, the latter is less
rare than expected. For instance, PulseAudio started linking against
json-c a while ago; now, every project linking against PulseAudio is
leaking json-c symbols. In the GNOME platform, this means that projects
linking against PulseAudio cannot be safely linked against other
libraries depending on the GLib-based JSON parsing libraries JSON-GLib,
because of a symbol conflict. Nominally, this conflict would not be an
issue: libraries and applications do not need to depend on two different
JSON parsing libraries; the symbol leakage, though, ends up causing
either segmentation faults, or weird errors. For further reference,
please see: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=703734
JSON-GLib already switched to using -Bsymbolic-functions, but it would
be safe if json-c did the same, wherever the linker flag is available.
This allows systems certain types of build setups to work. Specifically, this
will help when building on Android and using json-c as a dependency for another
package.
Changing root name of library to json-c, and also the
directory where header files are installed to .../jsdon-c/*.
This avoids clashes with other implementations of JSON libraries.
As part of this create a public json_config.h with a custom define to
decide whether to include inttypes.h to avoid conflicting with other
projects config.h header.
Added a Win32/Win64 compliant implementation of vasprintf
* debug.c - C. Watford (christopher dot watford at gmail dot com)
Removed usage of vsyslog on Win32/Win64 systems, needs to be handled
by a configure script
* json_object.c - C. Watford (christopher dot watford at gmail dot com)
Added scope operator to wrap usage of json_object_object_foreach, this
needs to be rethought to be more ANSI C friendly
* json_object.h - C. Watford (christopher dot watford at gmail dot com)
Added Microsoft C friendly version of json_object_object_foreach
* json_tokener.c - C. Watford (christopher dot watford at gmail dot com)
Added a Win32/Win64 compliant implementation of strndup
* json_util.c - C. Watford (christopher dot watford at gmail dot com)
Added cast and mask to suffice size_t v. unsigned int conversion
correctness
* json_tokener.c - sign reversal issue on error info for nested object parse
spotted by Johan Bj�rklund (johbjo09 at kth.se)
* json_object.c - escape " in json_escape_str
* Change to automake and libtool to build shared and static library
Michael Clark <michael@metaparadigm.com>
git-svn-id: http://svn.metaparadigm.com/svn/json-c/trunk@4 327403b1-1117-474d-bef2-5cb71233fd97
