<div dir="ltr">Hi Petri & Diego,<br><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 3, 2014 at 3:48 PM, Diego Elio Pettenò <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:flameeyes@flameeyes.eu" target="_blank">flameeyes@flameeyes.eu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><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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</blockquote></div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">With these concerns, maybe instead of symbol versioning I could/should just convert this to a symbol visibility reduction script? Or should I just discard my patch entirely?</div>
<div class="gmail_extra"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">-- Sean McG.</div></div>