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Re: versioning of _Unwind_*() symbols
On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 06:38:46PM -0700, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On 20 Apr 2004 18:24:42 -0700, Jim Wilson <wilson@specifixinc.com> said:
>
> Jim> How is this any different than what glibc does? Code linked against
> Jim> glibc's implementation of the ISO C and POSIX library standards can not
> Jim> be used with anyone else's implementation of the ISO C and POSIX library
> Jim> standards, because glibc versions symbols. If you didn't want to use
> Jim> the routines from glibc, you shouldn't have linked them in.
>
> I believe ISO C and POSIX only define APIs, not ABIs.
Thank you, David. That was precisely my point.
The LSB, for instance, defines an ABI. I believe it _does_ account for
symbol versioning, and there are non-glibc compliant implementations.
The C++ ABI doesn't account for symbol versioning - reasonable, since
it supports non-ELF targets - but the question at hand is, does that
cut out the possibility of versioning the symbols?
I was staying out of this discussion because I don't have a clear
answer to that question, but I do think that the answer is: yes, it
does eliminate the possibility. How to implement this properly is
unclear.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer