On Sat, Mar 18, 2023 at 03:46:36AM +0000, Jessica Clarke wrote:
> On 18 Mar 2023, at 03:44, Charlie Li <vish...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >
> > Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> >> libc/csu: rename ignore_init.c to libc_start1.c
> >> The current name was a historical curiosity that started when
> >> init array
> >> support was added, and then the file appeared a convenient place for
> >> the
> >> addition of the MI common code to csu. It is now referenced by name in
> >> single place and the rename is easy, so do it.
> >> Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
> >> MFC after: 3 weeks
> >> ---
> >> lib/libc/csu/Makefile.inc | 2 +-
> >> lib/libc/csu/{ignore_init.c => libc_start1.c} | 0
> >> 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > Seems like an ABI break. Anything compiled after this but ran on an
> > earlier-by-revision-but-same __FreeBSD_version complains with 'Undefined
> > symbol "__libc_start1@FBSD_1.7"'
>
> It’s not a break, just new ABI. Same as adding a new function, just
> everything automatically uses it.
Well it is break of ABI indeed, but it is backward-compatible. We never
guaranteed forward-compatibility, and hopefully never will. Doing so would
mean that FreeBSD is frozen.
>
> It’s true that __FreeBSD_version needs bumping if it hasn’t already
> been though.
>
I bumped the version to please the public, but I do not see much use for
this bump, same as for many other instances of the bump. The new interface
presence is declared by the export of specifically-versioned symbol in
libc, and really this export, instead of some random osversion reported
from unrelated software artifact (kernel) is what important.
