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Re: Special symbol version for glibc's internal interfaces

To: jakub at redhat dot com
Subject: Re: Special symbol version for glibc's internal interfaces
From: Geoff Keating <geoffk at geoffk dot org>
Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 10:59:28 -0700
CC: aj at suse dot de, pb at nexus dot co dot uk, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com, Karl dot Runge at Sun dot COM
References: <ho1ylwmhiu.fsf@gee.suse.de> <E15bjRJ-0004ML-00@mill.nexus.co.uk> <hoheusl1hn.fsf@gee.suse.de> <20010828163015.E5765@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
Reply-to: Geoff Keating <geoffk at redhat dot com>


Another advantage of a GLIBC_PRIVATE symbol version is that you can
change it with every release---just have GLIBC_PRIVATE_1,
GLIBC_PRIVATE_2, and so on.  This breaks programs more frequently, and
so discourages people from relying on these symbols.

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>

References:
- Special symbol version for glibc's internal interfaces
  - From: Andreas Jaeger
- Re: Special symbol version for glibc's internal interfaces
  - From: Philip Blundell
- Re: Special symbol version for glibc's internal interfaces
  - From: Andreas Jaeger
- Re: Special symbol version for glibc's internal interfaces
  - From: Jakub Jelinek

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