On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 12:13:21AM +0100, Paul Jakma wrote:
> Hi,
>
> (I'm not sure if this is the right list, it is a toolchain question..)
>
> Do we have any kind of support for versioned symbols, specifically
> having the /same/ global symbol alias to /different/ symbols according
> to the version (as the GNU toolchain has)?
No. Personally, I feel that putting this extra complexity into the way
linking works is a bad idea; if you *really* need to change the way a
function works like this, that's what '#pragma redefine_extname' is for.
Cheers,
- jonathan
> The GNU toolchain allows one to introduce versioned symbols bound to
> different symbols with:
>
> asm(".symver foo_old,[EMAIL PROTECTED]");
> asm(".symver foo_new,foo@@FROBNICATOR_2.0");
>
> Is there any way to do similar things with Sun Studio and Solaris LD?
>
> regards,
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> Paul Jakma,
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