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Re: [PATCH] 3.2: Fixup symbol versioning mistake on powerpc-linux-gnu
On Dienstag, 6. August 2002 23:25, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 11:13:10PM +0200, Franz Sirl wrote:
> > So in the future glibc will export these symbols only as a runtime
> > reference __divdi3@GLIBC_2.0 and libgcc_s will contain the linktime
> > reference @@GCC_3.0 and the runtime reference @GLIBC_2.0. IMHO this is
> > how it always should have been (and is for all other similar libgcc_s
> > symbols) on PPC. Unless one can give me a good explanation for the
> > current setup, I would rather prefer to have a correct setup on PPC for
> > the future.
>
> This is, IMO, a case of "you can't have your cake and eat it too".
> You should either change things and break compatibility or don't do
> anything at all. Shifting symbols between versions just to shift
> them is pointless.
Huh? "just to shift"? I don't understand, I've already seen bugs caused by the
current setup and I want to move to the new setup to cure these potential
bugs for the future. And if I can do that easily with backwards
compatibility, why should I break it? But if nothing else is acceptable to
you, I would even prefer that.
Franz.