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Re: Special symbol version for glibc's internal interfaces
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
> Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
>
>> Do you see any problems implementing this? This is a glibc 2.3 issue
>> IMO but we should discuss whether it can be done or not.
>
> I have discussed this issue with the guys at Sun when I was there a
> few months ago. It certainly is an appealing idea. No 2.2.x
> material, definitely since I am almost sure that there are programs
> violating the rules and introducing something like this in a minor
> release isn't adequate.
I agree completly that this is no 2.2.x issue.
[...]
> I have some plans for other radical changes in the ABI/API of the libc
> anyway for 2.3 and this might fit just well.
Can you tell us about them?
Andreas
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