On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 00:19 +1000, Ken Foskey wrote:
> There was a really good document on why a stable ABI for a library is
> important and how to achieve it but I cannot find it right now. For
> example when you add a parameter to function X you create another
> function Y with the original signature and give a sensible default to
> the new parameter. The authors name started with H from memory,
> something sounded German. Nuts!
>
Found it, no H in the name... This is a very technical document
describes how to optimise library loading speed. This is probably too
technical (read boring details) for most programmers but I found it very
interesting.
How To Write Shared Libraries
Ulrich Drepper
Red Hat, Inc.
http://people.redhat.com/drepper/dsohowto.pdf
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