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Re: RPC IPv6 breaks binary compatibility
>- We use symbol versioning and add a new version for the RPC functions.
> In this case we should also fix the broken use of "long", which should
> be uint32_t.
This sounds like the right approach. I guess it will involve a little more
work inside libc, but this way we avoid having to make the ugly changes to
client programs that would be needed if we just added a second address field.
p.