Re: __fpclassifyd problem

From: Steve Kargl <sgk_at_troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 16:24:03 -0700
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 03:48:58PM -0700, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 03:13:41PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> 
> > I sent in an email *along time ago* about this type 
> > of problem.  See the fallout due to revision 1.24
> > of lib/libc/stdio/findfp.c.  IMHO, all shared libraries
> > versions should have been bumped in going from 4.x to
> > 5.0. 
> 
> You don't want to do it before you have to, because this creates more
> pain for people when you make a change that breaks backwards compat
> (given the policy/preference of only bumping once per major release).
> 
> I'm working on a script that will detect the kind of backwards
> compatibility breakage we're seeing here by comparing the symbols in
> 4.x and 5.x versions of libraries with the same major revision.  We
> can then run this once a day/week/whatever somewhere to catch these
> problems as soon as they occur in future.
> 

You and I participated in the first go around in the
library versioning problem.  For one of my attempts
to discuss this problem, see

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1981830+1986079+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-current/20021103.freebsd-current

-- 
Steve
Received on Sun Oct 19 2003 - 14:24:05 UTC

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