Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Sun, 21 May 2006, Julian Elischer wrote: > >> Hajimu UMEMOTO wrote: >> >>> deischen> Go ahead. Just realize though, that after 7.0 is released >>> deischen> you will have to support any ABI from then on without version >>> deischen> bumps (meaning, you have to keep shims for any old 7.0+ ABIs >>> deischen> in libc). >>> >>> ume> Okay, I'll do. >>> >> >> I assume htat EVENTUALLY we will bump numbers again when something >> sufficiently >> big needs to be done to the ABI. > > > Symbol versioning is suppose to allow one library to support different > ABIs, so the hope is that we will never have to bump libc's version > number. If you change ABI, you still have to keep the old code around > (or some sort of compatability shims) in the library. > yes but that could get too big a drain on resources oftetr while (trying ot shim really old stuff into really new stuff.) It might eventually get to a point where it would be good to cut and run..Received on Mon May 22 2006 - 00:08:16 UTC
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