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            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

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