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Re: RFC: PATCH to add abi_tag attribute

On 11/23/2012 04:58 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: 
Okay, this might work in the sense that it flags the relevant cases. I'm
still not convinced that this actually helps programmers that much
because it pretty much separates the two worlds.  If this is the intend,
surely there are simpler approaches (such as a command-line flag which
changes the mangling for everything).

It only separates affected code; the idea is that code unaffected by ABI changes should be able to continue to interoperate normally.

Jason

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