versioned symbol problem

Phil Edwards phil@jaj.com
Mon Aug 12 16:04:00 GMT 2002


On Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 10:42:13PM +0100, Bruce Stephens wrote:
> prj@po.cwru.edu (Paul Jarc) writes:
> 
> [...]
> 
> > There's also a massive documentation bug in that symbol versioning
> > is not covered at all.
> 
> It's documented in the ld manual.  The documentation may be
> insufficient, but there is some.

Sun's Linker/Libraries Guide also has a good description of symbol
versioning.  The syntax of Sun's versioning scripts was the basis of that
used by GNU ld, so the examples are helpful.  http://docs.sun.com/ to start.

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