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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING.md b/CONTRIBUTING.md index 201efd133b..e38bba321e 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTING.md +++ b/CONTRIBUTING.md @@ -99,6 +99,9 @@ following. * ```gnutls_credentials_``` for the credentials structures * ```gnutls_global_``` for the global structures handling +All exported API functions must be listed in libgnutls.map +in order to be exported. + Internal functions, i.e, functions that are not exported in the API but are used internally by multiple files, should be prefixed with an underscore. For example `_gnutls_handshake_begin()`. @@ -108,9 +111,8 @@ not use the `_gnutls` prefix for simplicity, e.g., `get_version()`. Internal structures should not be exported. Especially pointers to internal data. Doing so harms future reorganization/rewrite of subsystems. - -All exported functions must be listed in libgnutls.map.in, -in order to be exported. +They can however be used by unit tests in tests/ directory; in that +case they should be part of the GNUTLS_PRIVATE_3_4 tag in libgnutls.map. # Introducing new functions / API |