In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Peter Jeremy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: : Disadvantages: : - Needs grunt-work to write the #defines : - Kernel symbols reported by nm(1) look strange (unless we patch : binutils to understand our versioning scheme). : - May present problems to '##' built symbols.
History has shown that people suck at keeping such a complex scheme up to date. Also, it versions functions, but not datta structures. Data strucutre changes are the number 1 cause of ABI breakage we've had over the last 5 years. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message