On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 01:12:30PM +0200, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: > It can be used to provide different implementations in one library based > on hardware support etc, without adding an additional layer of > indirection like the function pointer dance we do in src/common for the > atomics.
Like we do for libm in ld.so.conf? > It also makes it possible to move symbols from one DSO to > another without breaking the ABI if the old location uses symbol > versioning. That's the original motivation here -- to be able to gut > libgcc_s.so without requiring the major bump. I prefer the major bump! Martin
