Questions re Symbol versioning

[David Collier-Brown]

Stefan (metze) Metzmacher wrote:
>>It doesn't help everywhere, but it doesn't harm where it's supported.
>>So far the build-farm looks ok.

Gerald (Jerry) Carter schrieb:
> But it doesn't help us with versioning on platforms that
> don't use GNU ld right?  So we have to go through all the hoops
> of maintaining backwards compatibility (compatible DSO files).
> So what I'm missing is that this seems to make those platforms
> the corner cases which means they are guaranteed to break.
> My have to support two solutions at all ?

A logical next question is how does it fail when the linker
doesn't honor the versioning? Doe you get
- the first one found in the file?
- the last one?
- both if it's called more than once?

Another might be, can you implement it with, for example,
name mangling for linkers which don't support it?

--dave
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