l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> It will give us more options on GNU (and possibly Solaris) but not on
> the other platforms. So that won't affect our policy of not breaking
> the ABI during a stable series.
>
> On GNU and Solaris, we may be able to reduce the number of applications
> tha
Neil Jerram writes:
> l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
>
>> It also makes it possible to provide two versions of the same symbol,
>> e.g.:
>>
>> SCM scm_from_string (const char *)--> GUILE_2.0
>> SCM scm_from_string (const char *, scm_t_handler) --> GUILE_2.1
>>
>> Appli
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> It also makes it possible to provide two versions of the same symbol,
> e.g.:
>
> SCM scm_from_string (const char *)--> GUILE_2.0
> SCM scm_from_string (const char *, scm_t_handler) --> GUILE_2.1
>
> Applications that were compiled again
Hi Neil,
Neil Jerram writes:
> I looked at the ld doc, but that didn't make it obvious what the
> benefit of this is; could you explain?
The main advantage is that executables/libraries that use versioned
symbols include the required version in their symbol table:
$ objdump -T guile | grep s
l...@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès) writes:
> Hello,
>
> The patch at [0] makes it so that a linker version script (info "(ld)
> VERSION") is used for `libguile' on platforms that support it (GNU and
> Solaris).
>
> Comments welcome!
Hi Ludo,
I looked at the ld doc, but that didn't make it obvious wh
Hello,
The patch at [0] makes it so that a linker version script (info "(ld)
VERSION") is used for `libguile' on platforms that support it (GNU and
Solaris).
Comments welcome!
Ludo'.
[0]
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guile.git/commit/?id=9af080f7206dccffb91409529fff74e6554f2385
