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Re: [PATCH][fortran] Rework allocator library interface
Richard,
I thought that the reworked allocator was approved to
go into gcc 4.2 branch next week? Won't that eliminate the
problem?
Jack
On Thu, Dec 14, 2006 at 03:04:34PM +0100, Richard Guenther wrote:
>
> I don't think symbol versioning will help retro-actively here, so to
> keep unreleased 4.2 libgfortran working we need to either bump the library
> version number or use new names and continue providing the old ones.
> We can change the function names without providing the old ones which
> will result in linker errors rather than crashes.
>
> Until the change is backported to the 4.2 branch we have the (bad)
> situation that the two libgfortrans claim to be compatible but are not.
>
> Richard.
>
> --
> Richard Guenther <rguenther@suse.de>
> Novell / SUSE Labs