need for flag for incompatible-changes

Richard Henderson rth@cygnus.com
Thu Jan 29 11:20:00 GMT 1998


On Thu, Jan 29, 1998 at 09:24:01AM -0500, Paul Koning wrote:
> Clearly, if the names of the functions change (due to namespaces) but
> their calling conventions did not (same argument types etc.) then the
> linker can map old names to new names if it is told to do so.

You know, at some point it becomes much easier to just
force people (and companies) to rebuild the libraries.


r~



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