Date: Thu, 09 Sep 1999 07:54:09 +0200 From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@scc.nl> To: Dmitrij Tejblum <tejblum@arc.hq.cti.ru> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 32+ signals and library versions Message-ID: <37D74B81.FDE66686@scc.nl> References: <199909081812.WAA86144@arc.hq.cti.ru>
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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 :-)? -- Marcel Moolenaar mailto:marcel@scc.nl SCC Internetworking & Databases http://www.scc.nl/ The FreeBSD project mailto:marcel@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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