From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/7617 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: u-wsnj@aetey.se Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: Should we support (not use, support) symbol versioning? Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 13:51:28 +0200 Message-ID: <20150510115128.GM8197@example.net> References: <20150510010359.GA8002@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1431258734 28666 80.91.229.3 (10 May 2015 11:52:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 11:52:14 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-7630-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Sun May 10 13:52:09 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YrPmD-00089v-BJ for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Sun, 10 May 2015 13:52:09 +0200 Original-Received: (qmail 3193 invoked by uid 550); 10 May 2015 11:52:07 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Original-Received: (qmail 3174 invoked from network); 10 May 2015 11:52:06 -0000 X-T2-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50 Received-SPF: none receiver=mailfe04.swip.net; client-ip=96.44.189.101; envelope-from=u-wsnj@aetey.se Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150510010359.GA8002@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:7617 Archived-At: 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