<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">Please note that symbol versioning only makes sense if you plan to *replace the ABI of a function in a later version*. If you do that, then no, building against a new version and trying to run it against an old version will not work.</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">If you don't plan to make changes like that, symbol versioning is totally useless.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">Also, please don't make it optional, but only conditional on the OS, because mixing builds with and without versioning across distributions would jsut be a huge headache for no gain.</div>
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