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Date:      Wed, 20 Nov 2013 22:21:52 -0800
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-stable@freebsd.org, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-stable-10@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r258398 - in stable/10: . include lib lib/libc lib/libc/iconv lib/libc_nonshared sys/sys
Message-ID:  <CAGE5yCoY219z2nJ48muQLXu8O5S4uYxPzCFPtO%2BFD2EaVzXM9w@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <528D274E.5020007@freebsd.org>
References:  <201311202025.rAKKP0ce054293@svn.freebsd.org> <528D274E.5020007@freebsd.org>

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On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 1:19 PM, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 11/20/13, 12:25 PM, Peter Wemm wrote:
>
>> +int _iconv_version_compat = 0x0108;    /* Magic - not used */
>> +
>>
>>  can you illuminate this a bit more?  is it magic, or is it not used?
>

libiconv has a unique, non-standard, private identifier for its version,
'extern int libiconv_version'.  Ours acquired one via search/replace, by
accident.  In theory, nothing knows of "iconv_version", but in order to be
ABI compatible with old 10-alpha/beta snapshots, I left it there via its
.symdef alias.  "Magic" refers to the old magic number that it had.  Not
that it does anything special.

-- 
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV



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