On Thu, Apr 8, 2021 at 3:08 PM Van Haaren, Harry <harry.van.haa...@intel.com> wrote: > > > For rte_service.h doc changes I'm all fine. > > > > > > For ABI consistency, this removes a function from the DPDK_21 version map > > > that > > didn't exist in > > > the shared object itself. I'm not sure if that's an ABI break or not... I > > > see ABI > > experts on CC, > > > and will let them comment on that topic. > > > > The symbol is not in the API anymore. > > Applications can't have a reference to this symbol without a definition. > > Agreed, however I'm not familiar enough with linking/ABI stability to > know if removing a symbol (even when not available in the API) could > affect the resulting shared object's ABI.
After a discussion with Dodji and looking at binutils, I understand that the versioning is applied for each symbol found in an elf object. So at least with binutils, non-existent nodes in a version script are harmless and have no impact on the generated elf. -- David Marchand
