Re: A patch for default version and archive

["H . J . Lu" <hjl at valinux dot com>]

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 11:52:30AM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> "H . J . Lu" <hjl@valinux.com> writes:
> 
> > tells me it was intentional.
> 
> It's definitely not.  I was there when this code was written.
> 

Here are the ChangeLog entries:

Tue Mar 11 01:13:31 1997  Ian Lance Taylor  <ian@cygnus.com>

	...
	From Eric Youngdale <eric@andante.jic.com>:
	...
	(elf_frob_symbol): Check for external default versions.

Sun Mar  9 23:49:12 1997  Ian Lance Taylor  <ian@cygnus.com>

	From Eric Youngdale <eric@andante.jic.com>:
	...
	(elf_frob_symbol): If there is a versioned_name, either rename the
	symbol, or add an alias with that name.

That is all I can find. Plus the comments in elf_frob_symbol (), I
believe it was done on purpose. Eric might not image how it might
be used later. But it was a conscious decision to allow versioned
references.


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H.J. Lu (hjl@valinux.com)