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From: u-wsnj@aetey.se
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Should we support (not use, support) symbol versioning?
Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 13:51:28 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150510115128.GM8197@example.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150510010359.GA8002@brightrain.aerifal.cx>

On Sat, May 09, 2015 at 09:03:59PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> This is breaking a new hack in libgcc_s.so
> that's going to affect us with new GCC versions.

I try to avoid dependencies on newer gcc versions so hopefully
will not be affected. In any case I'd prefer this to be fixed
somewhere else, instead of adding a workaround to musl.

> None of this changes the reasons why symbol versioning is a horrible
> mistake/misdesign and should not be used for anything; it's just a
> matter of trying to keep things from breaking where others are using
> it...

Thanks for the clarification, I was becoming worried otherwise.

Rune



      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-10 11:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-10  1:03 Rich Felker
2015-05-10  2:18 ` Rich Felker
2015-05-10  4:53   ` Рысь
2015-05-10 11:51 ` u-wsnj [this message]

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