Dmitrij Tejblum wrote:
>
> > Another issue when sigset_t changes is the version numbers of shared
> > libraries. Since libc and libc_r have changed on the interface level, they
> > need a version bump.
>
> I suggest to try to avoid the version bump. NetBSD-like way to do it:
> Give new implementations another names in object files, so that they
> don't conflict with old implementations, and preserve old
> implementations in the library too. To make the compiler generate calls
> to new implementations, one can add appropriate #define s in .h files.
> For GCC, __asm__ attribute also can be used.
That still is an interface change and thus needs a version bump. How else
do I know wich version x library has the new implementations (besides the
larger one :-)?
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