[Rd] unexported symbols in libR.so of r-devel

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Na Li wrote:

>
> Thanks to Matthias Burger, I came to know that in r-devel, a lot of symbols
> are no longer exported in libR.so, which breaks the package rpvm since it
> calls these functions in serialize.c.

They are hidden.  Since they are in Rinternals.h, this was unintentional,
although they are not part of R's declared API and so are at risk (see 
Writing R Extensions).

Just remove 'attribute_hidden' (which I have done in the sources)

> R_InitInPStream
> R_InitOutPStream
>
> Since the change is fairly recent (earlier this month), I guess the core team
> will be making further changes.  In any case, please add these two to the
> exported list.

No more changes are planned.

> Thanks,
>
> Michael
>
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