stability of libgomp and libssp

Eric Christopher echristo@apple.com
Thu Oct 19 21:56:00 GMT 2006


On Oct 19, 2006, at 2:50 PM, Diego Novillo wrote:

> Eric Christopher wrote on 10/19/06 17:33:
>
>> I was wondering if anyone planned on changing abi or if we can depend
>> on all changes not breaking the abi of these libraries?
> There is nothing planned in that area, but I wouldn't want to  
> guarantee ABI stability.  Mostly as a result of bug fixing.  Since  
> this will
> be the first official release, I expect several bugs that may  
> introduce
> ABI problems.
>

OK.

> Unless you can use some kind of versioning, I don't see a good way  
> to address this.

And as discussed on irc symbol versioning won't quite solve the  
problem anyhow. :)

thanks.

-eric



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