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Re: A completely different approach to EH runtime
On Wed, Feb 28, 2001 at 05:02:46PM +0000, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> > As soon as you add functions, give libgcc_s.so a new major number, but
> > only put the NEW functions in there.
...
> If you bump the major verison of libgcc_s.so, you have to bump the major
> version of libc.so and hence every other shared library in the system.
Correct on FreeBSD. And this caused major problems when a very low level
in compatible interface change was attempted in FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT's
libc. (we did not want to change the name of 100's of shared libs (ie,
bump the version number))
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-- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)