Version script help needed

[Ulrich Drepper]

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H. J. Lu wrote:

>>>And I wanted to accomplish that without having an explicit .symver for 
>>>the VERNEW symbol version.
>>
>>This is not how the versioning scheme was designed.  Live with it.
>>
> 
> 
> Personally, I believe it is a bfd bug. Basically, elf_link_assign_sym_version
> matches divdi3 with VEROLD for

You cannot simply allow this.  Conider all the different situations. 
What if a symbol is undefined for more than one version name?  Or what 
if .symver isn't used and adding the version script to the linker 
command line is forgotten?

Requiring .symver is a deliberate decision to catch mistakes.

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