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Re: need for flag for incompatible-changes
- To: pkoning at xedia dot com (Paul Koning)
- Subject: Re: need for flag for incompatible-changes
- From: Joe Buck <jbuck at synopsys dot com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 98 12:08:27 PST
- Cc: jbuck at synopsys dot com, jhpb at sarto dot gaithersburg dot md dot us, egcs at cygnus dot com
> If object files contained version numbers, you wouldn't have to break
> anything. (More precisely, you would only have to break things that
> are older than the oldest version you want to continue supporting in
> the linker.)
Where we have control over the linker (Linux, or platforms where GNU ld
will work), we could use the linker to handle some types of
incompatibilities. In many cases, I'm afraid that all it will lets
us do is say "sorry, incompatible object files".